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Saul Williams is a prominent singer recognized for his distinctive vocal style and poetic lyrics. Born on February 29, 1972, he has made substantial contributions to the music industry with his soulful performances and innovative musical approaches.

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“I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.”

Ifs Believe May Different Play Feelings Sound Creativity Expression Type Picks Instruments Block Writer's Block

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“I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Ideas Related Fluidity

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“There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work.”

Ifs Mean Found Literature Neighborhood

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“If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.”

Ifs Given Challenges Emotion Authority Findings Expected Waking Questioning Harmonious Challenge Yourself Cusp

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Might Moving Beats

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“If you feel something, you should do it.”

Ifs Feels Should

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“I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.”

Ifs Way Age Vision Roles Millions Birth Peaceful Transition New Age Spawn

Author:Saul Williams

“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.”

People Ifs Lying Social Race Progress Poet Realising Favourite Constructs

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“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”

Ifs Matter Emotion Wonder Saws Sea Poet Bottles Shore Unsure

Book:She

Source: She

“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”

Ifs Sun Signatures

Book:, said the shotgun to the head.

Source: , said the shotgun to the head.

“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”

Ifs Thinking Doe Deals Written Fool Tradition Poetry Is Oral History Oral Tradition Written History

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“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

Ifs Trying Facts Eye Poetry Existence Cases Darkness Five Heard Perception Senses Naked Unseen Bananas Five Senses Naked Eyes

Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

About the Author

Born: February 29, 1972
Known for: Singer
Quotes: 113

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