Quotes By Kanye West

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.

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

Fashion breaks my heart.

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.

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.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

I am not a fan of books.

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?

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'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

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

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

George Bush doesn't care about black people.

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.

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?'

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

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

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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

Nothing in life is promised except death.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

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