intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate Saul Williams More Quotes by Saul Williams More Quotes From Saul Williams 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 Saul Williams mother father children A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true. Saul Williams stained-glass glasses lying Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. Saul Williams ghetto rap ideas The hero is the person who's afraid to run away. Saul Williams running-away hero running Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it. Saul Williams realizing art I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect. Saul Williams cnn hip-hop people I feel that people need to be jolted out of their comfort zones. Saul Williams comfort people needs To me, it would probably be more work to extract my politics from my art. Saul Williams politics / I never got to be myself'cause to myself / I always was, Black Stacey, in polka dots and Paisley... you thought it wouldn't phase me but it did'cause I was just a kid... I never got to be myself'cause to myself I always was' Black Stacey'. Saul Williams politics To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience. Saul Williams politics The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells. Saul Williams pretty like power love The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness. Saul Williams master control just weakness There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away. Saul Williams language power mind people You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age. Saul Williams you political age time
