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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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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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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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