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 [http://www.saulwilliams.com/ His website]
-==Life & Work==
+==Life
-Born in Newburgh, NYC, in 1972, Saul Williams is a graduate from New York University. He has a B.A in Philosophy and a Master’s Degree in acting. <br>
-He is well known for his performances at the Brooklin Moon Café at the «Open Mic Sessions». In 1996, he became the Nuyorivan Poet Café’s Grand Slam Champion.
-Saul William was also featured in the film «SLAM» and has collaborated with the Fugees, KRS-One and many others.
-Besides being a rapper and a brilliant poet, Saul Williams is also a writer. He has been published in newspapers (The New York Times, Details, Esquire, Bomb Magazine and African Voice).
-His first book is entitled «The Seventh Octave».
-In the «Esquire», Saul Williams is described as ''"a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets"''.
-==Quotations==
-''"It's about leaming that you're not a victim, regardless of how many times you are told you're a victim."'' (Saul Williams)
-----
-==Coded Language==
-===Video===
-[http://www.theonenetwork.com/playvideo.asp?speed=300&type=music&videoid=saulwilliams_coded Coded Language] Video
-or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lQRklU9nc here] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8 here]
-====Other work====
-[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSR7H580e5U Scene from Slam] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vapwh7HCBU another scene]
-[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=saul%20williams&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=1 Online search of his work]
-===Lyrics===
-<center>
-Saul Williams - '''Coded Language Lyrics'''
-Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the
-diasporic community to its drum woven past.
-Whereas  the quantised drum has allowed the whirling
-mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
-Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun
-backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet
-at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to
-catch up with the present.
-We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards
-of dialogue.
-Statements, such as, 'keep it real', especially when punctuating
-or
-anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically
-or physically
-or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be
-seen as
-retro-active and not representative of the individually
-determined is.
-Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of
-this state of
-being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and
-their secular
-manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to
-be increased
-by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as
-vocal
-aggressors.
-Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
-We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a
-number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's
-speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
-Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of
-the
-unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the
-truth.
-Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
-Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars
-to erase the
-centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of
-cause and
-effect
-Reject mediocrity!
-Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as
-been given
-for you to understand.
-The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent
-restricted to the
-diet of an infant.
-The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and
-deformative
-symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce
-and crushed
-pears
-Light years are interchangeable with years of living in
-darkness.
-The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with,
-Ignorance, but
-with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
-Thus, in the name of:
-ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT,
-HELEN,
-LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE,
-WHITMAN,
-BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ,
-SIDDHARTHA,
-MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUERDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN,
-HAMER, HOLIDAY,
-DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE,
-RACHMNINOV,
-ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON,
-RIPPERTON,
-MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS,
-NEFERTITI,
-LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY,
-KING, FOUR
-LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY,
-COSBY,
-SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
-We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
-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 now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
-Our music is our alchemy
-We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and
-a hand full
-of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned
-upside down
-supply the percussion factor of forever.
-If you must count to keep the beat then count.
-Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
-Curve you circles counterclockwise
-Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
-Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and
-bees.
-Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the
-new day for
-today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing
-frequencies
-into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography,
-carpentry,
-crafts, love, and love.
-We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
-Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
-Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their
-responsibility to
-uplift the consciousness of the entire f**king World.
-Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers
-slain
-Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers
-slain
-</center>
-==The Pledge of Resistance==
-free [[Mp3]] download: http://www.notinournamemusic.com/mp3/01_Pledge_of_Resistance(original).mp3
-===Lyrics===
-We believe that as people living<br>
-in the United States it is our<br>
-responsibility to resist the injustices<br>
-done by our government,<br>
-in our names<br>
-Not in our name<br>
-will you wage endless war<br>
-there can be no more deaths<br>
-no more transfusions<br>
-of blood for oil<br>
-Not in our name<br>
-will you invade countries<br>
-bomb civilians, kill more children<br>
-letting history take its course<br>
-over the graves of the nameless<br>
-Not in our name<br>
-will you erode the very freedoms<br>
-you have claimed to fight for<br>
-Not by our hands<br>
-will we supply weapons and funding<br>
-for the annihilation of families<br>
-on foreign soil<br>
-Not by our mouths<br>
-will we let fear silence us<br>
-Not by our hearts<br>
-will we allow whole peoples<br>
-or countries to be deemed evil<br>
-Not by our will<br>
-and Not in our name<br>
-We pledge resistance<br>
-We pledge alliance with those<br>
-who have come under attack<br>
-for voicing opposition to the war<br>
-or for their religion or ethnicity<br>
-We pledge to make common cause<br>
-with the people of the world<br>
-to bring about justice,<br>
-freedom and peace<br>
-Another world is possible<br>
-and we pledge to make it real.<br>
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