"Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding"
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)

"the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past to die"
— Saul Williams

"Come, my love, we have oceans to sail."
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)

"intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate"
— Saul Williams (," said the shotgun to the head)

"Talk to strangers
when the family fails and friends lead you astray
when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay.
'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms:
in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm,
and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about
perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out."
— Saul Williams

"I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought."
— Saul Williams

"A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true."
— Saul Williams (The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop)

"They say that I am a poet
I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle
emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on
distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for
that matter as to whether I ever get my point across
or my love"
— Saul Williams

"I surrendered my beliefs
and found myself at the tree of life
injecting my story into the veins of leaves
only to find that stories like forests
are subject to seasons"
— Saul Williams (," said the shotgun to the head)

"I'm hip to their game, hip to the science of war
Propoganda makes me fight but what am I fightin for?
My way of life? Beans and rice? Give and take, less or more?
See through the eyes of the poor, plus I'm black to the core
Ignorance is on tour bookin stadiums and more
The days of hitler painted pictures patriotic before
You raise your flag on a land snatched from bald eagles claw, and stamp the symbol on your currency to finance your war.

I'm sayin no.
Not in my name.
Not in my life.
Not by my hands.
That ain't my fight.
Not in my name.

You wage your war against terrorists and violence, and try to wave your guns and fear us all into silence.

NO."
— Saul Williams

"Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children
so long
for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers
we live"
— Saul Williams (She)

"she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun"
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)

"only through new words
might new worlds
be called
into order"
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)

"i am like a survivor
of the flood
walking through the streets
drenched with
God
surprised that all of the
drowned victims
are still walking and talking"
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)

"the anchor man
thrown overboard
has simply rooted us
in history's repeating cycle"
— Saul Williams (Said the Shotgun to the Head)