Top 17 Saul Williams Quotes

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Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
Saul Williams
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
Saul Williams
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn’t walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
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
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
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
Saul Williams
I’ve always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.
Saul Williams
What’s wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
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
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 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
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
There’s no doubt in my mind that ‘Slam’ is going to be huge. It’s a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
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
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
‘Niggy Tardust’ is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it’s born into.
Saul Williams