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.

Saul Williams

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• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• 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.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Religion
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Holidays

• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Like
  • Movies
  • Got

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Dare

• I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Think
  • Past
  • Patience

• Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Poet

• Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • History
  • Think
  • Lose

• Now, to-day, this moment, is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last for ever. We must take it or leave it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.

  

  Warren Farrell

• 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.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• 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.'

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Men
  • Control

• I'm cautious about a lot of words.

  

  James Hillman
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Stock

• 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.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • World

• 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.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• For us, the pressure comes from internal matter of having recorded eight records.

  

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• During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known - Nominee Barry Goldwater.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Party

• It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • Women
  • Party
  • Health

• Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Fear
  • Violence

• 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
  • Party
  • Consciousness
  • Hip Hop