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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Screenwriter
Singer
Television Actor
Voice Actor
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Newburgh
New York
Saul Stacey Williams
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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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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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Vulnerability is power.
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Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, It's my guilty pleasure. I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.
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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
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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 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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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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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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Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.
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I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
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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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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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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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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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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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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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