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I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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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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When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.
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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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I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.
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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 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 organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
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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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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 can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.
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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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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
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There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.
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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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