Saul Williams
Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williamsis an American rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, and actor. He is known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop, and for his lead roles in the 1998 film Slam and Holler If Ya Hear Me, a Broadway musical featuring music by Tupac Shakur...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth29 February 1972
CityNewburgh, NY
CountryUnited States of America
past waiting insightful
the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.
grind
Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth
love-you love-is imagination
My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.
dumb movement social
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
soul steps spirit
I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
morning honestly
Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.
lying race people
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.
facts fax holograms
Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.
book reading writing
I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.
morning wake-up bathroom
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.
song art past
I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.
tree veins forests
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
heart moon darkness
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.