177 Quotes by Saul Williams

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they’ll think about it differently.

Legislation won’t necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live.

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.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It’s so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.

Art itself is underserved when we don’t realize the power of it.

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it’s not about writing today, maybe it’s about reading today. Maybe it’s about finding the sort of book you would never read.