"There's a time and place for confrontation and there's a time and place to just let it pass you by," Williams says. "But overall, my issues are with power and with people's relationship to power."
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The unflinching multidisciplinary artist has long welcomed new challenges. With the release of a new album and a new book, he embraces the role his career has been building toward: investigative poet.
"There's a time and place for confrontation and there's a time and place to just let it pass you by," Williams says. "But overall, my issues are with power and with people's relationship to power."
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