Kanye West
Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.Collection: Hate
I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.Collection: Music
I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.Collection: Lost Everything
I had a dream I can buy my way to heaven.Collection: Dream
I've been outta my mind a long time.Collection: Long
I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: People
When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...Collection: Pain
To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.Collection: Memories
When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.Collection: Hate
I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.Collection: Responsibility
No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.Collection: Beach
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.Collection: Men
I live and breathe every element in life.Collection: Elements
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?Collection: People
Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benzCollection: Rap
I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.Collection: Notebook
If you fall on concrete, that's yo ass faultCollection: Fall
You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'Collection: Nucleus
As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.Collection: Rapper
So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.Collection: Dream
You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.Collection: Thinking
I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.Collection: Education
I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.Collection: Facts
Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.Collection: Sleep
First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.Collection: Baby
[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.Collection: Want
When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.Collection: Drawing
I think I started to approach time in a different way after the accident. Before I was more willing to give my time to people and things that I wasn't as interested in because somehow I allowed myself to be brainwashed into being forced to work with other people or on other projects that I had no interest in. So simply, the accident gave me the opportunity to do what I really wanted to do.Collection: Opportunity
People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.Collection: Daughter
I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.Collection: War
My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.Collection: Song
If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.Collection: People
I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.Collection: Musical Genius
If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs.Collection: Jobs
50 told me go head and switch the style up and if they hate, let 'em hate, watch the money pile up.Collection: Hate
I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.Collection: Way
I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.Collection: Dream
Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?Collection: Important
I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.Collection: Beautiful
I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.Collection: Machines
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.Collection: Color
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.Collection: Believe
If everything I did failed - which it doesn't, it actually succeeds - just the fact that I'm willing to fail is an inspiration. People are so scared to lose that they don't even try. Like, one thing people can't say is that I'm not trying, and not I'm not trying my hardest, and I'm not trying to do the best way I know how.Collection: Inspiration
Don't say you don't know! It's because of Kim. Meaning there's no photo that I would have put up by myself, or next to one of my smarty friends, that would have got that amount of likes. So now you take this photo that has that amount of likes, and it has a flower wall from the same guy who does the Lanvin shows, and it has a couture Givenchy dress and Givenchy tuxedo in it. That's the point. Now the thing that is the most popular is also communicating the highest level of creativity. The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.Collection: Wall
I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.Collection: Down And
I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.Collection: Sleep
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and gunsCollection: Gun