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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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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 have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
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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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I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
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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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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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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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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 dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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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 have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.
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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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