Saul Williams Quotes & Sayings
29 most famous Saul Williams quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 52 year old American musician born on Feb 29, 1972.
“Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.”
“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 music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.”
“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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