Saul Williams

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

— Saul Williams

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there

— Saul Williams

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

— Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

— Saul Williams

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

— Saul Williams

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

— Saul Williams

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

— Saul Williams

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

— Saul Williams

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

— Saul Williams

What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

— 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…

— Saul Williams

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims…

— Saul Williams

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People…

— Saul Williams

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all…

— Saul Williams

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe…

— Saul Williams

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move,…

— Saul Williams

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that…

— Saul Williams

pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have…

— Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that…

— Saul Williams

Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave…

— Saul Williams

Сommercial hip-hop is not youth rebellion, not when the heroes of hip-hop like Puffy are taking pictures with Donald Trump and the…

— Saul Williams

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry…

— Saul Williams

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans…

— Saul Williams

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But…

— Saul Williams

We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that…

— Saul Williams

My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine.

— Saul Williams

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

— Saul Williams

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

“I don't trust the man that i am becoming he seems too much and seldom is”

— Saul Williams

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

— Saul Williams

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK

— Saul Williams

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

— Saul Williams

You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.

— Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

— Saul Williams

I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones.

— Saul Williams

“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”

— Saul Williams

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

— Saul Williams

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

— Saul Williams

Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?

— Saul Williams