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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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Vulnerability is power.
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I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.
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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
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What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful it reaches so many people.
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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
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Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.
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I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not the street - that's Wall Street.
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