#u

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it. ↗

— Saul Williams

#different way #emanate #most #most powerful #political

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

#aspire #because #black #criticism #current

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

— Saul Williams

#hip-hop #put #too #young

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. ↗

— Saul Williams

#acquired taste #actual #focus #i #language

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. ↗

— Saul Williams

#does #fool #great #great deal #history

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. ↗

— Saul Williams

#become #i #life #making #making up

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance. ↗

— Saul Williams

#excited #growing #i #interest #live

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence. ↗

— Saul Williams

#bush #common #confidence #jay #lot

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. ↗

— Saul Williams

#i #mother #preacher #rhyme #teacher

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

#cent #consider #heartless #kinda #like