Saul Williams Quotes

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time. ~ Saul Williams

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence. ~ Saul Williams

I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience. ~ Saul Williams

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

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance. ~ 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

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

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

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs. ~ 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 can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know. ~ Saul Williams

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die. ~ Saul Williams

Pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near ( ... ) the beginning ~ Saul Williams

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. ~ Saul Williams

It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America. ~ Saul Williams

I stand on the corner of the block slinging
amethyst rocks. Drinkin 40's of mother
earth's private nectar stock. Dodgin cops.
'Cause Five-O be the 666 and I need a fix
of that purple rain. The type of shit that
drives membranes insane. Oh yeah, I'm in
the fast lane. Snorting candy yams. That free
my body and soul and send me like Shazaam!
Never question who I am. God knows.
And I know God, personally. In fact, he
lets me call him me. I be one with rain
and stars and things, with dancing feet
and watermelon wings. I bring the
sunshine and the moon. And wind blows
my tune. ~ Saul Williams

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away. ~ Saul Williams

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that. ~ Saul Williams

The forecast is
we kiss goodbye and never hello
all kisses are then parting kisses ~ 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

You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to. ~ Saul Williams

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. ~ Saul Williams

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

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

I hear the weed is really strong in California ... ~ Saul Williams

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. ~ Saul Williams

They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love ~ Saul Williams

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering. ~ Saul Williams

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail. ~ Saul Williams

She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands. ~ Saul Williams

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

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. ~ Saul Williams

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. ~ Saul Williams

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

The wind plays the world like an instrument. Blows through trees like flutes. But trees won't grow in cement. And as heart beats bring percussion fallen trees bring repercussions. Cities play upon our souls like broken drums. ~ Saul Williams

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown. ~ Saul Williams

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it. ~ Saul Williams

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal. ~ Saul Williams

I presented my feminine side with flowers. She cut
the stems and placed them gently down my throat.
And these tu lips might soon eclipse your brightest
hopes. ~ Saul Williams

She stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away ~ Saul Williams

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

Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.
'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms:
in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm,
and when you finally take the time to see what they're about
perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out. ~ Saul Williams

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

She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away. ~ Saul Williams

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

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

If you feel something, you should do it. ~ Saul Williams

Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you've heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections. ~ Saul Williams

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. ~ Saul Williams

Vulnerability is power. ~ Saul Williams

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

If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else. ~ Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it. ~ Saul Williams

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind. ~ Saul Williams

When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom. ~ Saul Williams

this is her body this is her blood ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect ... It's as simple as wanting to lift the spirits. ~ Saul Williams

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, "yes," in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister. ~ Saul Williams

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 ~ Saul Williams

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

I am no earthling. I drink moonshine on Mars
and mistake meteors for stars 'cause I can't hold
my liquor. But I can hold my breath and ascend
like wind to the black hole and play galaxophones
on the fire escape of your soul. ~ Saul Williams

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

The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle ~ Saul Williams

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 ~ 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

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community. ~ Saul Williams

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

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently. ~ Saul Williams

Only through new words might new worlds be called into order ~ Saul Williams

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding ~ Saul Williams

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. ~ Saul Williams

When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant... ~ Tennessee Williams

When people come out of rehab, they usually go to secondary rehab for another six months and then enter back into society gradually. But I came out and did Top Of The Pops straight away! ~ Robbie Williams

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture. ~ Wendy O. Williams

We spoke of death, not in a morbid way, but in a pragmatic one.
"It will come," Dad said. "But for now, heaven is here. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. ~ Robin Williams

I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling. ~ Kelli Williams

No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL ~ Pharrell Williams

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. ~ Bernard Williams

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like Rembrandt and Vermeer, it's not completely a matter of opinion. The pictures confront you, and you see exactly what it is. In modern art, a lot of it is suggestive, and it becomes a matter of opinion. ~ Peter Saul

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What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old Republic had no correspondence to the fact of the old Republic; that the glorious word concealed the deed of horror; that the appearance of tradition and order cloaked the reality of corruption and chaos; that the call to liberty and freedom closed the minds, even of those who called, to the facts of privation, suppression, and sanctioned murder. ~ John Edward Williams

But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact. ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Sun benches at the curb bespeak
another season, truncated poplars
that having served for shade
served also later for the fire. ~ William Carlos Williams

I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art. ~ Peter Saul

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. ~ Evan Williams

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation. ~ Michelle Williams

The most evident distinguishing sign is man's organization of his life according primarily to mythic, and only secondarily economic, aims and laws. Food and drink, reproduction and nest-building, it is true, play formidable roles in the lives no less of men than of chimpanzees. But what of the economics of the Pyramids, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Hindus starving to death with edible cattle strolling all around them, or the history of Israel, from the time of Saul to right now? ~ Joseph Campbell