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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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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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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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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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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 don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
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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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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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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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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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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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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Your library teacher would say, What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics? Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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