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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
Composer
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Musician
Poet
Rapper
Screenwriter
Singer
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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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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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.
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It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.
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Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
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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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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.
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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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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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