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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

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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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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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American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
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I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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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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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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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
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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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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 feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.
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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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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.
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