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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.

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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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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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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