Saul Williams Quotes

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.
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.
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.
Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
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