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What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful it reaches so many people.
Saul Williams
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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
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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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