177 Quotes by Saul Williams

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK.

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.

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.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.