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I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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Newburgh
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Saul Stacey Williams
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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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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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