Saul Williams Quotes
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.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.
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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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The consciousness of being betrayed is to the collective consciousness of a sacred group what a certain form of schizophrenia is to the individual…it is a form of madness.
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In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, 'This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.'
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I always have homemade chicken stock in the refrigerator. I'll reduce it, maybe add a little cream and a few shallots. Before you know it, eureka! It's the best.
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When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
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I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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He's wrong. That's why his films look so terrible.
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When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.
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I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
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I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.
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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.
