Saul Williams Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it.”

“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.”

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

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

“You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.”

“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 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.”