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 Copy Share Image
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. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
