186 Quotes by Kanye West
- If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
- We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
- This dark diction has become America's addiction.
- They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
- 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 know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
- I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
- I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
- George Bush doesn't care about black people.
- 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.
- Embracing mindful tech use is not about restriction, but sophistication; it's discovering resources that fuel creativity instead of stuffing the mind.
- Sometimes it's black, sometimes it's white, sometimes it runs to gray
- Creativity is the product of those who ask questions worth exploring.
- I think there's so much greatness in a person that goes beyond skin color, financial income, specifically leaving an imprint of courage.
- I think everyone's crazy but me, and I call that being sane.
- Businesses have to rely on collaboration and input from divergent perspectives to generate new ideas straight from people
- I experienced a breakthrough when I realized all this fear is self-imposed.
- Believe in your fly-ness, consume kindness, consistently express yourself
- I sequence my ideas like a lyric aficionado speaks them, by threading aspirations beyond blinkered vision.
- Striving to be iconically original is more powerful than achieving style-inspired perfection.
- I see ourselves as gamer innovators with limitless characters and imagined languages.
- Creativity is not precise. It thrives in exploration, in finding madder beauty and deepest meaning within coarse consumer demands.
- I see things differently, and that's my superpower.
- I feel like I'm too safe, and I've got to probe where rap is scary to people.
- I refuse to subscribe to the formula that others think I should follow.
- I'm always going to break culture, I'm always breaking social norms.
- I refuse to go with the flow. I want to thread the needle.
- I refuse to apologize about what I take from creativity. I can only recreate reality as it is meant to be.
- You have to tell your story first before anyone else can write it.
- I think what you're frightened of is being yourself.
- I always dream small
- I astound myself with the undeniable mind that conceived a monster.
- I'm a human being. I'm supposed to care.
- The point of my aesthetic is that it interrupted flaws existing within fashion.
- People leave when the vision isn't clear.
- I refuse to be influenced by societal norms. I'm architecting my own reality.
- I empowered myself to realize one might simply redefine existence.
- Believe in your unseen gifts, they will manifest only if you trust and work relentlessly.
- Fashion is merely a mirror of your imagination, a harvest by design.
- I'm private, I have emotions, I deserve sanity
- I refuse to accept other people's perceptions of me as reality.
- Believe in your flyness, conquer your Shyness
- I am still Learning
- The more technology evolves, the more you acquire the freedom of removing filters to express freer ideas.
- In the expense of expectations lay the treasures of authenticity.
- I refuse to follow everything as I make my own witness with love.
- In creativity, new is just a play off of past revelations differentiated by time and growth.
- The medium is the message in creating the culture that shapes opinions.
- I innovate, I disrupt, I inspire, and I challenge what is impossible.
- Don't be afraid to be vulnerable, it's the blueprint of creativity.
- I see something that's not there and turn it into something real.
- Every artist is inspired from a symptom that touches their very core regardless of whether or not they comprehend it.
- Ambition is not a moment
- You have to be relentless. No shortcuts.
- I ask questions, even when the earth is quiet.
- I approach interactions as a blank canvass and value the color it gains through experience, rather than allowing translations to dim it.
- I raise the bar in music, fashion, culture
- I always use my mind to figure out what I'd like the future to become rather than simply hoping things will improve.
- Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
- I would never walk away from these people who are about truth and creativity.
- People dream first, and then work hard to make that dream a reality.
- I refuse to be overwhelmed by doubts when my vision is clear.
- I think it's all about choice, determination, and creativity. That's the key to success.
- Wearing stuff that's undervalued and unseen expands the seas of perception.
- Wrap me in your confidence, showing my brilliance to the world instead of being overshadowed by expectations.
- I create my own lightning by grounded thought.
- Poetry and creativity, when united, unleash innovation beyond possibility.
- You have to plant seeds, not just with money
- A prisma of originality bends private thoughts into universal artistry.
- I like backlash. It's the glitch in your intended intentions that jolts transcendence.
- Life is my only opportunity to reconceptualize opportunity itself.
- I think mini-malls are what happiness looks like.
- I think it's important to have a voice and lead. Building our own opportunities is fundamentally subversive to club-minded cultures.
- The measure of success isn't whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
- I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
- Movement, how do you move that which drifts so elegantly in design YET also strains under routine checks of madness.
- I am just a wake-up call for this unprogrammed world.
- I invent my world every day, outstanding and special, I Hyperimagine!
- No one can relate to our experience but us.
- I don't want to be counted out or defined. I'd rather be part of reiterating realities unknown.
- I can set a precedent for just harnessing the ingenuity of our imagination.
- Believing in your convictions, even against the waves of opposition, will not just reshape your world, but complete your inner narrative.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- I have a vision and it fuels every aspect of my life.
- I dream in colors so bright, I cannot focus on just black and white.
- I sequence moments like I create files in my heart.
- I always feel like I'm being woven into a bigger fabric but never fit precisely into a single patch.
- Believe in your flyness, conquer your world.
- I just give people words to live by.
- Believe in your ego
- I follow my own vision and let no one deem themselves my guide.
- Migration equips Creation, fueling the art of stimulation.
- I innovate to explore the dysfunction and possibilities of how people think.
- The most important advice I could give is to find spaces that allow you to leverage unique skills.
- I never model my dreams after other people's reality.
- I would never try to understand my purpose in this life through material gain.
- I embody my belief that life is a pilgrimage liable to fits of worship across culture and revolutions.
- Living the last moment of simplicity in complexity.
- Efforts and strong foundations matter more than affiliations.
- I can't stimulate the crowd. If you find people shaky, accept that I'm constant no matter the howling.
- Believe in your talents more than your mistakes.
- Sometimes you have to travel to the edge of your imagination to create what they've been dreaming about.
- I expressed all these emotions through control, innovating perfection behind chaos.
- I think human beings have a problem with being human.
- I sold clothes to radicalize youth in fashion and culture.
- I approach every instant of my life to create and break moments simultaneously.
- Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith to enable yourself grow beyond what you currently are.
- Believe in your dreams, even if a million people say you're crazy. That's the real work of art.
- One of the dumbest things a person can ever say is, 'My only enemy is myself.'
- In order to be great, you have to be willing to be mocked and misunderstood.
- I feel the creative life is going into minimal and poignant thoughts
- I think the structured way of worship resembles going directly to God, outside of tradition.
- The only performance that matters is the energy behind what you're doing.
- I refuse to fall into the categories that others attempt to confine me in.
- I draw trends, vibrancy, and dreams out of mud.
- I will never quit, and I won't give up the way we grew on unanswered ideas and creativity.
- I'm a human being with feelings and emotions, a creative with a hunger for new ideas everywhere.
- Create your own vibe, then watch the world reward your authenticity.
- The only way to pave the path for the future is to tie every single innovation and creativity to the racing beats of culture.
- I embody creativity in viewpoints, unconfined by limitations.
- The media talks about who they believe I am and a photograph validates this opinion, not my reality.
- We're not always in line within enlightenment and improvement, we're basically swimming against cultural templates we predefined.
- I don't go after the money. I seek my dreams and let the money chase after me.
- value friendship over weaponry, power follows love
- Believe in your reality and live it now. Don't wait for others to come around.
- Creativity takes courage.
- I'll never be limited by others' ideas of progress.
- In a Land of Guides, The Masters Lead
- In the end, it's not about the horse and riding awards you presented but whether you can heal a heart when the laughter wears away.
- I refuse to be shaped by someone else's pieces.
- Desire might seem strong, but confidence simply conquers fear.
- We're so accustomed to our rules, our behavior patterns
- I'd mostly gone light on that President stuff
- Just because you're going to England doesn't mean you're going to play Wembley every time
- I still think I am the greatest.
- I'm not in the psyche of anyone but myself.
- I want to win so bad that I simply refuse to lose.
- Believe in your flyness, converse with your craziness.
- I've never switched up, it's always been greatness ahead of whatever's behind.
- I refuse to just create, urging people to reconsider what it means to build visual and sonic aesthetics.
- I think there's so much creativity in restraint to thrive in periods of adversity.
- Treat your version of my vernacular like letters revealing secrets of life
- I think it's important to have a falling out with something in your life that'll make you better.
- I call it 'the new flower'
- Creativity is about allowing yourself to dream while organizing this energy into forces working synergistically.
- I see naysayers, I see heroes, it's the contrast that drives the complexity of who I am.
- I will not be reduced to artistic limitations.
- Creative people are the instruments of the world.
- I think it's important to always be hungry.
- Beautiful design really comes from within.
- Believe in your blackness, in your brilliance, and let none of the world's setbacks shade your light.
- Creating your reality intentionally requires solitude to process your own thoughts without comparison.
- Believing in the strange visions requires faith beyond ordinary sight.
- In the discourse where public perception is permanent, remember the legacy you etch is yours alone to uphold.
- I believe in a world that accepts imperfection and finds beauty in chaos.
- Expense ain't always adjusted in monetary terms.
- I genuinely believe that realistic innovation thriving alongside aggressive beauty can unlock uncountable visions for audiences everywhere.
- I can't focus on something that throws me off or that's some lesser ideal that people rehearse.
- I think the energy you put into action dictates flow.
- I refuse to compromise on my passion, I want to shape the future.
- I think the hardest thing is to get spooked and still sing.
- I don't create mirages. I create magazine covers.
- Fashion is inspiring, constantly moving by politics alongside life itself.
- Life is 5 percent what happens to you and 95 percent how you respond to it.
- Believe in your innovation more than the limitations of conformity.
- I can always remain unique regardless of my sentiment or the sway of the time.
- How could you want to do something that shouldn't exist in a structure as authoritative as the savagery of the world today?
- I wouldn't be alive if I wasn't artistic.
- We're all designers. We break out of rules.
- The overlooked truth forces real change.
- Creativity is about asserting your will into everything you touch.
- Assess my success fiercely instead of mimicking another model.
- Connection is the blueprint, let's start building from the point of departure.
- I believed geographical positional placement held relevance until I rotated mental exercises further every day.
- I'm not out here to be a false prophet, but I may challenge people
- I create listening experiences and tools
- Believe in your desires and reset humanity through your dreams.
- I don't allow my school to be rewritten by businesses.
- I'd rather take a leap and fall, than never take a journey at all.
- I am frustrated that perception alone drives much of our conversation.
- Colored water will come eventually from an unpurified fountain.
- Believe in yourself and fight for the importance of imperfections.
- I can light a fire without a spark.
- Believe in your flyness, conjure your infinite greatness.
- Influence is my resume.
- Adversity creates opportunity. We can explore our true potential only in moments of struggle.
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