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Vulnerability is power.

Saul Williams

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Musician
Poet
Rapper
Screenwriter
Singer
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Writer
Newburgh
New York
Saul Stacey Williams
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Vulnerability

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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
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I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
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I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
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Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.
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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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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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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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I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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