Saul Williams Quotes

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

To search for truth about self is as valuable as to search for truth in other areas of life.

I study more of truth and enlightening. I had to go the next level to talk about life.

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

The truth is that you shouldn't match your insides to other people's outsides. Life is an inside job, and we just have to do our best.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.