Quote

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.

Saul Williams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Basically
Train
Eavesdropping
Sitting
Cafes
Spend
Parking
Looking
Stations
Time
Parks
People
Vulnerable
Lots

More quotes by Saul Williams

Image
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
Saul Williams
Image
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.
Saul Williams
Image
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
Saul Williams
Image
the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
Saul Williams
Image
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.
Saul Williams
Image
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories like forests are subject to seasons
Saul Williams
Image
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
Saul Williams
Image
Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
Saul Williams
Image
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?
Saul Williams
Image
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.
Saul Williams
Image
I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.
Saul Williams
Image
I hear the weed is really strong in California.
Saul Williams
Image
There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.
Saul Williams
Image
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.
Saul Williams
Image
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
Image
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Saul Williams
Image
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
Saul Williams
Image
i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
Saul Williams
Image
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Saul Williams
Image
It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.
Saul Williams