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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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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Screenwriter
Singer
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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Newburgh
New York
Saul Stacey Williams
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When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.
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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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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've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.
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If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.
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It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.
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