Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of the truth? All I want to do is do good.

Fashion breaks my heart.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, How does creativity apply across the board?

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

My apologies, are you into astrology/Cause I’m tryin’ to make it to Uranus.

The same people that tried to blackball me forgot about two things: my black balls.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

I’m not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity… we’re 1 people.

People don’t stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.

I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.

We have to understand that we’re not each others enemy.

I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn’t come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

I don’t care about having a legacy, I don’t care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we’re here, while we’re having fun, while we’re sleeping, breathng oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy…what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.

I want people to feel like it’s ok to create. It’s ok to not be boxed in. I want people to feel like awesome is possible.

You’ve got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you’re just everyone else.

It’s bigger than me. It’s about while I was here on earth what did I do to help.

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.

Every time I say something that is extremely truthful, out loud…it literally breaks the internet. So what are we getting all the rest of the time.

The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family.

Go listen to my music. It’s the code of self-esteem. It’s the code of who you are. If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself.

Kanye West is so passionate that he will make a sucker feel uncomfortable because they aren’t passionate like that about anything in their life.

It really matters and then like it really doesn’t matter. What matters is the people who are sparked by it. And the people who are like offended by it, it doesn’t matter. Because its about motivating the doers. Because I’m here to follow my dreams and inspire other people to follow their dreams, too.

It’s about whatever I want to make it about. It’s my world.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

I’ve been saying how I feel at the wrong time.

There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.

Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

The dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.

When we die, the money we can’t keep, But we probably spend it all ’cause the pain ain’t cheap…

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.

I don’t particularly like photos of myself, though.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

If y’all fresh to death, then I’m deceased.

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

You’re not perfect, but you’re not your mistakes.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

I always feel like I can do anything. That’s the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself… If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything.

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 trying to actualize our dreams.

You can’t look at a glass half full or empty if it’s overflowing.

As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

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?

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

I’m on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

I don’t expect to be understood at all.

I’ve known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.

This is my life homie, you decide yours.

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.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

Each night before you go to bed my baby, whisper a little prayer for me. And tell all the stars above, this is dedicated to the one I love.

Never w as much of a romantic, I could never take the intimacy. And I know I did damage.

I would find you in any lifetime.

On a bathroom wall I wrote: ‘I’d rather argue with you than to be with someone else’

The more they talk about our love, the more they make it obvious.

I’m going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain.

I’m going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain.

You should only believe about 90% of what I say. As a matter of fact, don’t even believe anything that I’m saying at all. I could be completely f—g with you, and the world, the entire time.

The media crucify me like they did Christ.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

50 is Eminem’s favourite rapper. I’m my favourite rapper.

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.

You know, I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.

I am Warhol! I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney, Nike, Google.

As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect.

For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.

Bad taste is vulgar. The world as a whole is f——g ugly. And the Internet too, but I’m not in the construction business.

Humbly, I would say I’m the most influential person in footwear right now… I’ll say, ‘truthfully.

I’m the closest that hip-hop is getting to God. In some situations I’m like a ghetto Pope.

Usually when you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self-esteem.

Most people are slowed down by the perception of themselves.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

I need a room full of mirrors so I can be surrounded by winners.

I no longer have a manager. I can’t be managed.

My ex says she gave me the best years of her life I saw a recent picture of her, I guess she was right.

You may be talented, but you’re not Kanye West

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Being fresh is more important than having money.

Everything that I sonically make is a painting.

One of my biggest Achilles heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

My mother never raised me to ask for a handout.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

The prettiest people do the ugliest things.

I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won’t even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.

That that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger.

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap… I wonder if they’re clapping because they liked what they saw or because they’re happy it’s over?

To use is necessary. And if you can’t be used, then you’re useless.

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.

Believe in your flyness…conquer your shyness.

My music isn’t just music- its medicine.

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

Our work is never over.

I care. I care about everything. Sometimes not giving a f#%k is caring the most.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the rising sun.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

I still think I am the greatest.

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform life.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.

I approach creativity like a sport, where if I have a drawing I react just like a jock: LOOK AT THE FUCKING DRAWING RIGHT THERE YEAH! We’re all creatives here, we’re all born artists.

I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you have to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate their moment until it’s passed.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a “one size fits all” standard for happiness.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.

Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

We gonna touch the sky.

If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso.

Love your haters – they’re your biggest fans.

Everything I’m not makes me everything I am.

Everyone’s always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.