Quotes By Kanye West

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 am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

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.'

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.

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

I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.

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

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

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

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

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

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

I still think I am the greatest.

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.

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 can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

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.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

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.

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

Fashion breaks my heart.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

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.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.