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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

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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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Bush
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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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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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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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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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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When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.
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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 am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
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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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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'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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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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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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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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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
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