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Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
Composer
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.
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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 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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I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.
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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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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 always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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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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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
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