Kanye West Quotes

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.

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

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

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

People always tell you, ‘Be humble. Be humble.’ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

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

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

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

We gonna touch the sky.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

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.