Saul Williams Quotes

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

It's common for cultural shifts to start with young, urban adopters before going mainstream.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

That which separates ourselves from previous generations is rhetoric.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

I played records, the kids danced, and America watched.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

We are in love with youth culture in this country... It permeates every aspect of people's lives.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.