Saul Williams Quotes

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

Vulnerability is power.

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

Two autumns and I have not changed enough.

I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

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

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun