Quotes from 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

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

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.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

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.

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

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

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

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

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

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

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

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.