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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

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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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There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.
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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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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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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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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.
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American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
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i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
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There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.
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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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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
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I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?
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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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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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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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