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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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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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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 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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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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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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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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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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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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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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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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