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

Saul Williams

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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 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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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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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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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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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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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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 no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.
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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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If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
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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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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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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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When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.
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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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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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