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Quote by Saul Williams
Why shouldnt rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, hist

Why shouldnt rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess its this old idea of containment – that rappers, because theyre black, cant and shouldnt aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams

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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. – Saul Williams

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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness. – Saul Williams

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

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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I dont know the history of my sport. Im not like those people who know everything. – Usain Bolt

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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Life isnt meant to be easy. Its hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess Im something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another. – Richard M. Nixon

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