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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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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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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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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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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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Vulnerability is power.
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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 can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
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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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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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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.
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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
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I hear the weed is really strong in California.
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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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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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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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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 have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
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