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
peaceful vision age
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.
thinking self culture
American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.
running hero running-away
The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.
The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
writing thinking ideas
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
president common president-bush
Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
reflection giving hip-hop
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
lying glasses stained-glass
A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
air wings shoes
i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots
stars son moon
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.
popcorn half guilty
Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.
crazy real reflection
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.
teacher library concern
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?
different different-relationships music-is
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there