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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.
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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
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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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Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, It's my guilty pleasure. I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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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 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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When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.
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I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.
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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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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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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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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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I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the black people's CNN. Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.
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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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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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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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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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