Saul Williams Quotes
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There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.
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I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.
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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
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What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
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If you feel something, you should do it.
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only through new words might new worlds be called into order
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We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
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Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
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Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
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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.
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I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.
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I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.
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You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.
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My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.
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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.
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I hear the weed is really strong in California.
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i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking
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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.
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I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.
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The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.
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When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.
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Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life.
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I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
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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.
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Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
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the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
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Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
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intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate
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There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.
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