Here is an ultimate collection of the 200+ best Kanye West quotes that will inspire you.
Kanye West is an American Grammy Award-winning rapper, record producer, and fashion designer. Kanye is outspoken to his views and life outside of music and he has been a frequent source of controversy.
Below are some famous Kanye West quotes that will inspire you to be bold and to come out of your comfort zone.
Best Kanye West Quotes
“Nothing in life is promised except death.” – Kanye West
“We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.” – 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?” – Kanye West
“My music isn’t just music — it’s medicine.” – Kanye West
“This dark diction has become America’s addiction.” – Kanye West
“I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” – Kanye West
“Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.” – Kanye West
“If I don’t scream, if I don’t say something then no one’s going to say anything.” – Kanye West
“I still think I am the greatest.” – Kanye West
“When you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.” – Kanye West
“You ain’t gotta like me. I like me.” – Kanye West
“The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.” – Kanye West
“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.” – Kanye West
“You’ve got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one-hundredth power or you’re just like everyone else.” – Kanye West
“I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.” – Kanye West
“The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.” – Kanye West
“You can’t look at a glass half full or empty if it’s overflowing.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Motivational Quotes
“I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It’s like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.” – Kanye West
“I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.” – Kanye West
“For me giving up is way harder than trying.” – Kanye West
“People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.” – Kanye West
“We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing We’re constantly making mistakes. We’re constantly trying to express ourselves and actualize our dreams.” – Kanye West
“I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.” – Kanye West
“I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.” – Kanye West
“I don’t understand why they trippin’, If you ask me, Flow is just as nice as, I admit the propane, I just spit, probably, Just raise the gas prices, Everybody in the club, Try and get as fresh as me, What you want dog, Trying to stay recession free, And spit, refreshly,” – Kanye West
“I’ve had meetings where a guy actually told me, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you.” In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?” – Kanye West
“God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down” – Kanye West
“Whenever y’all are in the store from and y’all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it’s okay.” – Kanye West
“I just think that when my confidence meets other people’s insecurity, that equals Kanye’s arrogant.” – Kanye West
“People say I’ve got a bad reputation. I think I’ve got the best reputation in the building.” – Kanye West
“Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Inspirational Quotes
“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 schools need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.” – Kanye West
“You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.” – Kanye West
“I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.” – Kanye West
“I’m a monster, I’m a maven, I know this world is changin’. Never gave in, never gave up, I’m the only thing I’m afraid of.” – Kanye West
“I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.” – Kanye West
“Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?” – Kanye West
“What’s the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it’s possible.” – Kanye West
“I’m not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.” – Kanye West
“I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won’t even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.” – Kanye West
“I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it’s illegal to be naked.” – Kanye West
“I get to represent somebody I don’t think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“First rule in this world baby… don’t believe ANYTHING you see on the news…” – Kanye West
“I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain’t always gon’ be polite.” – Kanye West
“I got a long road ahead of me to make people believe I’m not actually a huge douche.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes on Success
“Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.” – Kanye West
“People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?” – Kanye West
“Why are people so afraid of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.” – Kanye West
“Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to God, and keep your face to the rising sun.” – Kanye West
“Go listen to my music. It’s the code of self-esteem. It’s the code of who you are. If you are a Kanye West fan you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself.” – Kanye West
“I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.” – Kanye West
“Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.” – Kanye West
“Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.” – Kanye West
“Most people are slowed down by the perception of themselves. If you’re taught you can’t do anything, you won’t do anything. I was taught I can do everything.” – Kanye West
“I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.” – Kanye West
“I’m on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.” – Kanye West
“I want people to feel like it’s okay to create. It’s okay to not be boxed in. I want people to feel like awesome is possible.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“It’s bigger than me. It’s about while I was here on earth what did I do to help.” – Kanye West
“People always tell you, be humble, be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!” – Kanye West
“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?” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes about Fashion
“You can have on a Zara pant, right? And a girl walks in with the Celine version, and you feel like sh*t that is the problem.” – Kanye West
“You don’t see just how fly my style is? I don’t see why I need a stylist when I shop so much I can speak Italian.” – Kanye West
“Met her at a beauty salon with a baby Louis Vuitton under her underarm.” – Kanye West
“Am I shallow ’cause all my clothes designer? Dressed smart like a London bloke, before he speak his suit bespoke and you thought he was cute before look at this pea coat, Tell me he’s broke.” – Kanye West
“Spendin’ everythang on Alexander Wang.” – Kanye West
“Me and Virgil…. Brought the leather jogging pants 6 years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many [expletive] have you seen with a leather jogging pant?” – Kanye West
“For my theme song my leather black jeans on.” – Kanye West
“I’ve got ideas on color palettes. I’ve got ideas on silhouettes. And I’ve got a million people telling me why I can’t do it. You know, that I’m not a real designer.” – Kanye West
“So if the devil wears Prada Adam, Eve wears Nada I’m between but way more fresher.” – Kanye West
“What’s that jacket, Margiela?” – Kanye West
“I’ve got a very particular, specific take on men’s footwear. No one can say I cannot design or understand how to design a guy’s sneaker. When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans…getting kicked out of class for drawing them.” – Kanye West
“My Jacket kind of fresh, bright red and as usual, My pants are tight-threaded. It seems like everybody dresses tight now and I just want my credit.” – Kanye West
“What are you doing in the club on Thursday? She says she only here for her girl birthday they ordered champagne but still look thirsty rock Forever 21 but just turned thirty.” – Kanye West
“The Lyor Cohen of Dior Homme. That’s Dior Homme, not Dior Homie.” – Kanye West
“Prince William ain’t do it right for you ask me cause I was him I would have married Kate & Ashley.” – Kanye West
“I’m talkin’ about us…. the people who love fashion. I’m talking about us, you know? ‘Cause I’m a slave to it. I love it. I love it! I loved it since age five.” – Kanye West
“I mean my whole team is about to smash the streets. The Phillip Lim remind ’em that it’s fashion week and the weather wasn’t barely hot. Did I mention that the sweater was a Jeremy Scott?” – Kanye West
“I’m just a Chi-town [expletive] with a Nas Flow and my chick in that new Phoebe Philo.” – Kanye West
“The Christian in Christian Dior damn! They don’t make ’em like this anymore. I ask cause I’m not sure do anybody make real sh*t anymore?” – Kanye West
“She said Ye, can we get married at the mall?” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes about Money
“Anyone that’s creative understands that there’s no amount of money that can be given to them to make them not want to, or have to, create. There’s no check out and there’s no cheque to stop you from [sic] creative. No pun intended when I’m saying no check.” – Kanye West
“We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract.” – Kanye West
“So many people talk about their investments or how much money they have but there’s so many rich people who spend a lot of that trying to buy a piece of happiness.” – Kanye West
“One of my courses was piano. I actually went to college to learn how to play piano. Talk about wastin’ some money.” – Kanye West
“The only luxury is time. The time you spend with your family.” – Kanye West
“For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“Having money isn’t everything, not having it is.” – Kanye West
“I’ve gotta get my money up to another level cause it ain’t on Jay Z level, it ain’t on Diddy level yet.” – Kanye West
“For me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most. Dopeness. People who want to make things as dope as possible, and, by default, make money from it.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes on Music
“I am flawed as a human. I am flawed as a person. As a man I am flawed… But nt music is perfect.” – Kanye West
“I’m like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.” – Kanye West
“It’s like this, by not giving my album a classic rating… you diminish your magazine’s credibility. And that’s rea.” – Kanye West
“I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.” – Kanye West
“I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.” – Kanye West
“I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“..my music isn’t just music- its medicine.” – Kanye West
“I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.” – Kanye West
“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.’” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“All this role model bullshit; you don’t have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.” – Kanye West
“I guess every superhero need his theme music.” – Kanye West
“I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.” – Kanye West
“I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.” – Kanye West
“But I think I’m on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That’s more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.” – Kanye West
“Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.” – Kanye West
“I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song ‘Niggas in Paris’ is called ‘Niggas in Paris?’ ‘Cause niggas was in Paris!” – Kanye West
“I’m the No. 1 artist in the world right now … I am the No. 1 human being in music.” – Kanye West
“I’m supposed to be a musical genius, but I can’t work the car seat that well.” – Kanye West
“We can teach about hip-hop history, we can teach about legends, hip-hop theory. It’s been around so long that text books can be written about it. This is a perfect time to capitalize on and get kids excited about [music] education.” – Kanye West
“I’m really happy I’m me because if I wasn’t I’d be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.” – Kanye West
“I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, ‘I’m soaking in these last moments of anonymity.’ I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen.” – Kanye West
“I gotta new strategy it’s called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.” – Kanye West
“Let the music defuse all the tension.” – Kanye West
“I’m not a corny-ass booty freak! I’m the greatest musician of all-time.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.” – Kanye West
“I think I’m a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I’m the video director. I’m the graphics designer. I’m the rapper. I’m the visionary. I’m the music producer. I’m the executive producer. I’m just going to end it off to be poetic: I’m the future of music.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes from Songs
“Bought more jewelry, more Louis V., my momma couldn’t get through to me” – Kanye West
“And I’ll just blame everything on you, at least you know that’s what I’m good at” – Kanye West
“Let’s go on a living free, they say the best things in life are free” – Kanye West
“I know I act a fool but I promise you I’m going back to school” – Kanye West
“Hey, do you remember where we first met? Okay, I don’t remember where we first met, but hey, admittin’ is the first step.” – Kanye West
“You got a new friend, well I got homies, but in the end it’s still so lonely” – Kanye West
“Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud” – Kanye West
“We at war, we at war with terrorism, racism, but most of all, we at war with ourselves” – Kanye West
“Everytime I’m in Vegas they screaming like I’m Elvis, but I just want to design hotels and nail it” – Kanye West
“I’ll never be a picture-perfect Beyoncé” – Kanye West
“My childlike creativity, purity, and honesty is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts” – Kanye West
“On the bathroom wall I wrote ‘I’d rather argue with you than be with someone else’” – Kanye West
“Back before anybody wanted K. West beats, me and my girl split the bucket at KFC” – Kanye West
“I’ma open up a store for aspiring MCs, won’t sell ‘em no dream but the inspiration is free” – Kanye West
“I’m gonna follow my heart and if you follow the charts or the plaques or the stacks, you ain’t gotta guess who’s back” – Kanye West
“I am a God, even though I’m a man of God, my whole life in the hand of God” – Kanye West
“I’m in love with you, but the vibe is wrong, and that haunted me, all the way home” – Kanye West
“Real friends, how many of us? How many jealous?” – Kanye West
“No you’re not perfect but you’re not your mistakes” – Kanye West
“Why you so paranoid? Don’t be so paranoid.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes about Love & Relationship
“Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they’d still want love.” – Kanye West
“Love your haters – they’re your biggest fans” – Kanye West
“Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s–. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious. Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.” – Kanye West
“I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, ‘We love you, we want to sign you,’ and then there’d always be one person who’d say, ‘He’s just a producer’.” – Kanye West
“I don’t care about having a legacy, I don’t care about being remembered. The most important thing to me is, while we’re here, while we’re having fun, while we’re sleeping, breathing oxygen, living life, falling in love, having pain and having joy…what can we do with our voice to make things easier, to help someone to make it better for our kids.” – Kanye West
“Any woman that you’re in love with or that loves you is going to command a certain amount of, you know, energy. It’s actually easier to focus, in some ways.” – Kanye West
“Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don’t care.” – Kanye West
“I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.” – Kanye West
“As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes on Kim Kardashian
“There’s no way Kim Kardashian shouldn’t be on the cover of Vogue. She’s like the most intriguing woman right now. She’s got Barbara Walters calling her like every day. And collectively we’re the most influential with clothing. No one is looking at what [President Barack] Obama is wearing. Michelle Obama cannot Instagram a pic like what my girl Instagrammed the other day.” – Kanye West
“Nobody can tell my girl what to do. She just needed to be given some platforms of information to work from. One beautiful thing is that as she discovers it, the world discovers it. For her to take [a] risk in front of the world, it just shows you how much she loves me. And how much she actually loves the opportunity to learn. You got, like, a million companies saying, ‘This is impacting your brand! This is impacting your fans! And blah blah blah.’ But she still sees this light of beauty.” – Kanye West
“One of the reasons why I think that me and Kim are very powerful together isn’t just the concept of celebrity or this mega rap star and this mega-beautiful pop [culture] star. It’s something I explain to my girl: She is who she is. I am who I am. We have advisers and friends and everything, but those people are who they are and we are who we are. And what I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.” – Kanye West
“Our love story’s a love story for the ages. I felt like when we first got together, it was like a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ kind of thing, where it’s like, she’s a reality star and I’m a rapper, and people talk about how our brands connect and what doesn’t fit. And I’m just so tired of the conversation of brands.” – Kanye West
“I loved her from the first day I saw her, which I said on ‘Bound.’ I remember seeing pictures of
her and Paris Hilton in Australia, and I came to Don C., and I was like, ‘Man, have you ever seen Kim Kardishawn? What’s up with Kim Kardishawn?” – Kanye West
“Okay, ladies and gentlemen. All barber shops, fashion designers, architects, corner stores, Wall Street, all over the world. Y’all acting like this ain’t the most beautiful woman of all time! I’m talkin’, like, arguably of human existence — the top 10 of human existence.” – Kanye West
“There’s times when I wasn’t with [Kim], I wanted to be with her so bad I thought about taking up sports.” – Kanye West
“There’s no way a Kim Kardashian shouldn’t have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Everyone is so dated and old-fashioned.” – Kanye West
“There’s times when I wasn’t with [Kim], I wanted to be with her so bad I thought about taking up sports.” – Kanye West
“She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money. which is really hard for me to find.” – Kanye West
“Y’all acting like this ain’t the most beautiful women of all time… I’m talking about, like arguably of human existence, the top 10, of human existence. I don’t give a f— what type of jacket she got on.” – Kanye West
“What is he talented at? She’s talented at being beautiful.” – Kanye West
“Our love story is like a love story for all ages… When we first got together it was like Romeo and Juliet kind of thing, where it’s like she’s a reality star and I’m a rapper.” – Kanye West
“Kim is like a fantasy, period. She’s like a dream girl. And I think a dream girl should live in a dream world.” – Kanye West
“I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that ‘already flying and now we’re just flying together.” – Kanye West
“I was in love with her before I was ever able to talk with her.” – Kanye West
“Basically, you know she was always my favourite girl. There was no girl in the world that could pull me away from her.” – Kanye West
“I can’t be with any girl but Kim because that’s the girl I look at her pictures the most, I get turned on the most.” – Kanye West
“Once you get a wifey, your wifey basically runs your life. Everything you do is based on wifey.” – Kanye West
“There is no way that my girl should not have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.” – Kanye West
“She created something really powerful that the universe connected with and I created something that people connected with and then when we combined our information…” – Kanye West
“We can help communicate and educate and just bring more dopeness in general. It’s really about dopeness at the end of the day.” – Kanye West
“Kate Upton ain’t Marilyn Monroe, Kim is Marilyn Monroe, you know that. SHe was controversial, She is controversial.” – Kanye West
“When we got engaged… I made sure the show was there [filming] because I felt like that’s something that would make her happy.” – Kanye West
“What I love about being motivated by Kim is I don’t rest on the laurels of creativity, just the product that I put out.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes about Life
“I’m always fighting either to have a house work with us or to head a house. It’s a lifestyle I can totally see: the future, modern Versailles, modern Versace, modern Calabasas, paparazzi, celebrity language. I just want to build a collection that’s around me and my wife and my kids.” – Kanye West
“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.” – Kanye West
“What I talked about in it was the idea of celebrity, and celebrities being treated like blacks were in the ’60s, having no rights, and the fact that people can slander your name. I said that in the toast. And I had to say this in a position where I, from the art world, am marrying Kim. And how we’re going to fight to raise the respect level for celebrities so that my daughter can live a more normal life. She didn’t choose to be a celebrity. But she is. So I’m going to fight to make sure she has a better life.” – Kanye West
“There’s nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn’t able to get good at. That’s my skill. I’m not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That’s what I do. That’s what I’m here for.” – Kanye West
“I’m a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything. There’s certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I’ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don’t want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don’t want my credit to look black.” – Kanye West
“Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?” – Kanye West
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books … I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.” – Kanye West
“As kids we used to laugh/Who knew that life would move this fast? Who knew I’d have to look at you through a glass? And look, tell me you ain’t did it, you ain’t did it And if you did, then that’s family business.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.” – Kanye West
Kanye West Quotes about Family
“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.” – Kanye West
“I would do anything to protect my child or my child’s mother. As simple as that,” – Kanye West
“After I lost my mother, there was times I felt like, I would put my life at risk. I felt like sometimes I didn’t have something to live for. Now I have two really special people [Kardashian and North] to live for.” – Kanye West
“I think I’m a better human being because of [Kardashian]and because of my daughter.” – Kanye West
“When I look in North’s eyes, I’m happy about every mistake I’ve ever made. I’m happy that I fought to bring some type of reality to this world we choose to stay in right now, driven by brands and corporations,” – Kanye West
“We talked about her not having this child. … She brought North into the world even when I didn’t want to. She stood up and she protected that child.” – Kanye West
“I’ve never seen someone so overprotective, and at 3 years old you would think he’d have no idea. Or he’ll just be like, ‘Mom, that looks good. You can wear that.’ He’s so opinionated that it’s so funny.” – Kanye West
“People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.” – Kanye West
“I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had.” – Kanye West
“I think about things to put them in a place where I don’t have to think about them anymore. Say if I had a child with a really bad mom, I would have to think more than if I had a child with a good mom. I’m just doing my homework early.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.” – Kanye West
Famous Kanye West Quotes
“Nothing is promised in life except death.” – Kanye West
“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.” – Kanye West
“I’ve reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.” – Kanye West
“Now that you’re gone, it hit us, super hard on Thanksgiving and Chrismas, this can’t be right, yo you heard the track I did called this can’t be life” – Kanye West
“If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn’t be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.” – Kanye West
“An artist’s career doesn’t happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist’s career happens in a lifetime, and if you’re a true artist you’re willing to die for what you believe in.” – Kanye West
“This is my life homie, you decide yours.” – Kanye West
“They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.” – Kanye West
“Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.” – Kanye West
“I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.” – Kanye West
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