Saul Williams Quotes

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 feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

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.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

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 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.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

If you feel something, you should do it.

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?

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cutthe stems and placed them gently down my throat.And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightesthopes.

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

i laced my shoes with sorrowand walked a weary roaddead end streetsdon't come undonewith double knots wing tipped shoesthat walk on airthrough vacant lots

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fatherswe live

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building, spring to lifea resuscitated angel.