Saul Williams > Quotes

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.
'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms:
in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm,
and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about
perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.”
― Saul Williams

“Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die”
― Saul Williams

“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”
― Saul Williams

“she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away”
― Saul Williams, She

“I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness.
We trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone.
Our music is our alchemy.”
― Saul Williams

“The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.”
― Saul Williams

“She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.”
― Saul Williams, She

“My love is my soul's imagination...
how do I love you... imagine.”
― Saul Williams

“A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.”
― Saul Williams, The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”
― Saul Williams

“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”
― Saul Williams

“only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“I'm hip to their game, hip to the science of war
Propoganda makes me fight but what am I fightin for?
My way of life? Beans and rice? Give and take, less or more?
See through the eyes of the poor, plus I'm black to the core
Ignorance is on tour bookin stadiums and more
The days of hitler painted pictures patriotic before
You raise your flag on a land snatched from bald eagles claw, and stamp the symbol on your currency to finance your war.

I'm sayin no.
Not in my name.
Not in my life.
Not by my hands.
That ain't my fight.
Not in my name.

You wage your war against terrorists and violence, and try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence.

NO.”
― Saul Williams

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel.”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“i am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God
surprised that all of the
drowned victims
are still walking and talking”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“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.”
― Saul Williams

“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus . . . I rhyme.”
― Saul Williams

“i laced my shoes with sorrow
and walked a weary road
dead end streets
don't come undone
with double knots

wing tipped shoes
that walk on air
through vacant lots”
― 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, She

“Some rather seek up high
Than dig and grind that inner truth”
― Saul Williams

“I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.”
― Saul Williams

“pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

“She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis’ blood
on his hands.”
― Saul Williams, The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.”
― Saul Williams