Saul Williams Quotes

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'.

The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.

Being mainstream is fun.

People came to America and they did not abandon their own cultures, but they assumed new ones, a new one, an American culture rooted in liberty and freedom that they had never enjoyed in their lives prior. They didn't have to sacrifice who they were. They didn't have to change or give it up, but they were eager to become Americans.

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.

People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted in individual liberty and primacy of citizen over government. Everybody who came here, that's what drew them.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

The bandleader is a musician trying to sell a mass commodity; and in order to do so successfully he must accommodate himself to mass standards. Unless he can do this comfortably, sooner or later he is sunk.

I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and our leading lady. That experience was incredible, and I was just enjoying myself.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

Know that America belongs to you, to all of you.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.