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I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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Vulnerability is power.
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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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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I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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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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There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.
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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.
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I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.
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If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.
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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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