Kanye West
I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.Collection: Good
People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!Collection: Time
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 truth? All I want to do is do good.Collection: Truth
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.Collection: Happiness
Nothing in life is promised except death.Collection: Death
It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.Collection: Funny
Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.Collection: Politics
For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.Collection: Money
In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.Collection: Age
My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.Collection: Music
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.Collection: History
All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.Collection: Religion
I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.Collection: Business
I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.Collection: Time
I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.Collection: Family
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.Collection: God
I love sleep; it's my favorite.Collection: Love
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.Collection: Life
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.Collection: Food
Art is to be free. Design is to fix.Collection: Art
I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.Collection: Best
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.Collection: Art
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.Collection: Future
I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.Collection: Age
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?Collection: God
There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.Collection: Time
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.Collection: Food
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.Collection: Music
If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.Collection: Music
Our work is never over.Collection: Work
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.'Collection: Design
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.Collection: God
There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.Collection: Power
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
I still think I am the greatest.
It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.
I am not a fan of books.
We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.
I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
Here's something that's contrary to popular belief: I actually don't like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don't. I do not like to think at all.
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.
I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.