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I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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Saul Stacey Williams
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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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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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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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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The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
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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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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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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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It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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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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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
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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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American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
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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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