Saul Williams quotes

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate. (Saul Williams)
The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. View quote
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the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. View quote
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My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine. View quote
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A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. View quote
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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. View quote
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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. View quote
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The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. View quote
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Come, my love, we have oceans to sail. (Saul Williams)
she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun. View quote
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she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away. View quote
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Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun. View quote
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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. View quote
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only through new words might new worlds be called into order. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK. View quote
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. (Saul Williams)
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there. View quote
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