The real power of influence occurs when you influence people who don’t even realize that they’ve been influenced by you. They may not even know who you are. This mainly happens when your art is so deeply embedded with love and your desire to see change in the world that the message becomes detached from the author and travels on its own. From heart to heart. We felt Amiri Baraka. I wasn’t even born yet and I felt him. I felt my mamma feeling him. he was part of the reason my mom turned to my dad, after having already birthed two mid-complexioned daughters, and said, “I just want a dark, dark boy with curly, curly hair.” Presto. Black Magic.

– Saul Williams on the late, great Amiri Baraka. May he rest in peace.

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 handful of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply percussion factor of forever. if you must count to keep the beat, then count.

find your mantra and awaken your subconscious..