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I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

Saul Williams

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Saul Williams
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: February 29
Actor
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When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.
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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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The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.
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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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What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
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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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Your library teacher would say, What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics? Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.
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Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the heroes of capitalism - you know that's not rebellion. That's not the street - that's Wall Street.
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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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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.
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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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Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.
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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
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I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.
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