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
might term
I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.
focus taste language
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
heart culture sometimes
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.
order world might
only through new words might new worlds be called into order
moon wind imagination
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.
kids hip-hop hips
I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.
daughter song philosophy
The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs.
mind tickets literature
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.
art wind play
Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.
death dying waste
Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
thinking good-things
I think that heartbreak is a good thing.
ocean sail
Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.
hate intuition taught
intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate
silence shapes messages
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence