Quotes from 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.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.

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

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

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

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

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

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

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

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

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.

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

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

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

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

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