Saturday, May 9, 2009

Saul Williams

Some of my favorite quotes from the book ,Said the Shotgun to the Head.  More than brilliant.  It may affirm all you've ever known, that you didn't know yet...

"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 alligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman."

"Come see how death is a myth. There are no deceased only deceived.  Death only awaits those who believed"

"I have committed myself to adultery.  I will only sleep with GOD's wife.  Our affair is no secret; he gets his thrills from watching us.  I cannot tear myself from her eyes.  I am, indeed, her pupil and no longer fear the unseen"

"I am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God suprised that all of the drowned victims and still walking and talking"

"Have you ever been? Are you experienced? Have you ever been to electric lady land?  Did you drink from the fountain?  Did you bask in her molten core?  Did she call your name and guide her to her peak?  Did you feel her quake and tremble?  Did you feel the need to restrain her?  Did she unmask her loving fury?  Did she frighten you?  Did you question what it felt like to have someone inside you?  To swallow life and incubate a world to come?  Did you ask her how it felt to be God incarnate?  To be the daughter of the moon bearing the sun?"

"This earth is our sanctuary, nothing more need be built"

"You have shown me a love that cannot be given or taken.  Let us bask in the fullness of ourselves"

"She kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun"

"O my friends, the greatest Americans have not been born yet. They are waiting patiently for the past to die"

"Throw away your map and swallow this cratered pill.  Pull it from the sky and let it dissolve under your tongue.  It is only a matter of time before we are timeless.  Do you feel it yet? Wow.  I can trace each shadow back to its origin.  Can you feel it yet?  Drink more water, take deeper breaths.  Wow.  Why have I been so afraid of love?  So afraid of being vulnerable?  So afraid of being open?  It's like every mannerism and gesture was a lie, some sort of shield to protect me from the judgement of others.   Oh my god.  Turn the music up.  Do you feel that bass line?  It feels like a snake."

"Eve was just open and that's what scared that father/sun god. Ha! That's why they named her Eve.  They were just afraid of the dark.  Scared of their mother's own womb.  Afraid of the unknown."

"Intelligence is intuitive: you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate"

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