“Thank God I’m not too cool for a seatbelt.”
— Kanye West
“I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.”
“I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.”
“When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.”
“I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.”
“God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down.”
“They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.”
“It’s a tough world out there. You’re going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees – and usually when you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.”
“For me to say I wasn’t a genius I’d just be lying to you and to myself.”
“I’m a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.”
“I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.”
“If you have power, you have to empower.”
“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.”
“We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing We’re constantly making mistakes. We’re constantly trying to express ourselves and actualize our dreams.”
“I am not a fan of books.”
“Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?”
“To use is necessary. And if you can’t be used, then you’re useless.”
“Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?”
“When we die, the money we can’t keep, but we probably spend it all cause the pain ain’t cheap.”
“You can’t look at a glass half full or empty if it’s overflowing.”
“I see stuff from the future, and I’m such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.”
“Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.”
“I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.”
“I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”
“We rappers are role models.”
“Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.”
“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.”
“No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.”
“I think I’m a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I’m the video director. I’m the graphics designer. I’m the rapper. I’m the visionary. I’m the music producer. I’m the executive producer. I’m just going to end it off to be poetic: I’m the future of music.”
“People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.”
“People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?”
“I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.”
“I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn’t come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.”
“People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I’m not going to say that. I’m only going to say what I’m want to put into the universe.”
“When I think of competition it’s like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.”
“I’ve known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.”
“Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.”
“Couldn’t afford a car so he named his daughter Alexis.”
“Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.”
“Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.”
“I can’t be a slave to the machine, you feel like you’re in the matrix.”
“An artist’s career doesn’t happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist’s career happens in a lifetime, and if you’re a true artist you’re willing to die for what you believe in.”
“What happens if a drone falls right next to her?”
“If you talking ’bout classics, do my name get brought up?”
“In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don’t ever want me to say I’m great?”
“I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.”
“Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.”
“The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that’s the way I need Jesus.”
“Taste and style is beyond clothes. It’s in food; it’s in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they’re all part of the same thing.”
“I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
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