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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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Saul Stacey Williams
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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 spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
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If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.
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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 feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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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 greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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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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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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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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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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I hear the weed is really strong in California.
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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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Vulnerability is power.
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The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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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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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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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