Famous Quotes

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

Saul Williams on Teacher

More quotes about Teacher

• "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

  Khalil Gibran on Teacher

• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Teacher

• "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."

  Confucius on Teacher

• "You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."

  Swami Vivekananda on Teacher

• "I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

  John Steinbeck on Teacher

More quotes by Saul Williams

• "I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas."

• "The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals."

• "Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness."

• "Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence."

• "I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations."