Quotes By Kanye West

This dark diction has become America's addiction.

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?'

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

Fashion breaks my heart.

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.

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.

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 refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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.