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1. "More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry." ~ Saul Williams
2. "The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence." ~ Saul Williams
3. "The wind is the moon's imagination wandering." ~ Saul Williams
4. "We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy." ~ Saul Williams
5. "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." ~ Saul Williams
6. "What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves." ~ Saul Williams
7. "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." ~ Saul Williams
8. "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." ~ Saul Williams
9. "Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair." ~ Saul Williams
10. "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." ~ Saul Williams
11. "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." ~ Saul Williams
12. "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." ~ Saul Williams
13. "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." ~ Saul Williams
14. "'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into." ~ Saul Williams
15. "The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness." ~ Saul Williams
16. "My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme." ~ Saul Williams
17. "Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it." ~ Saul Williams
18. "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." ~ Saul Williams
19. "I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine." ~ Saul Williams
20. "I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life." ~ Saul Williams
21. "Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence." ~ Saul Williams
22. "When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyleatop some crumbling building,spring to lifea resuscitated angel." ~ Saul Williams
23. "...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy. We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever..." ~ Saul Williams
24. "For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our childrenso longfor the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fatherswe live" ~ Saul Williams
25. "The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die." ~ Saul Williams
26. "They say that I am a poetI wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottleemotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle ondistant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and forthat matter as to whether I ever get my point acrossor my love" ~ Saul Williams
27. "this is her body this is her blood" ~ Saul Williams

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