A biography for Saul Williamshasn’t been written yet.
“I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.”
“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”
“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.”
“i laced my shoes with sorrowand walked a weary roaddead end streetsdon't come undonewith double knots wing tipped shoesthat walk on airthrough vacant lots”
“The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.”
“The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.”
“You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.”
“Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.”
“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”
“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building,spring to lifea resuscitated angel.”
“More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.”
“We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.”
“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.”
“The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.”
“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”
“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.”
“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.”
“We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.”
“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.”
“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.”