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.
Saul Williams
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
Saul Williams
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.
Saul Williams
I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done.
Saul Williams
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
Saul Williams
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.
Saul Williams
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.
Saul Williams
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
Saul Williams
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
Saul Williams
I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.
Saul Williams
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.
Saul Williams
Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
Saul Williams
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Saul Williams
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
Saul Williams
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
Saul Williams
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Saul Williams
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
Saul Williams
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
Saul Williams
The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.
Saul Williams
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