"My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.“

-Saul Williams

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"I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life."

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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."

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