177 Quotes by Saul Williams

What I’m aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

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

I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I’d go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it’s an unexpected encounter, there’s always some magic that comes from 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.

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.

I want to connect music to its highest power – which is heightening consciousness and affecting people’s reality. That can’t be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.

They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor’s mind.