- My Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Saul Williams Quotes
Most Famous Saul Williams Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best saul-williams quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Saul Williams Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Black
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hip-Hop
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
- Day
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Put
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.
- Different
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
- Love
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
- Confidence
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
- Mind
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Does
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
- Make
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Political
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
- Language
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
- Hip-Hop
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
- Great
- |
- Nov 07, 2020