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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Saul Stacey Williams
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I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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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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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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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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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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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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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 downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
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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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I hear the weed is really strong in California.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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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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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
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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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