Saul Williams Quotes

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.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

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.

Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.

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

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

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.

My love is my soul's imagination. How do I love you? Imagine.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

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

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun

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

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

I hear the weed is really strong in California.

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

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

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

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

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.

Vulnerability is power.

I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.

only through new words might new worlds be called into order

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

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

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?

I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

It's crazy when you see very little reflection between what's played on the radio and what people are talking about in the streets. It lets you know how far off we are from a real movement.

I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

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

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.

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

this is her body this is her blood

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

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