Kanye West Quotes

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

~ Kanye West

Success is the best revenge.

~ Kanye West

Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christmas pastToys R Us where I used to spend that Christmas cashAnd I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kidSwear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I didBut I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumphMake music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire

~ Kanye West

Money is not my definition of success, inspiring people is the definition of success.

~ Kanye West

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

~ Kanye West

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

~ Kanye West

I am not a fan of books.

~ Kanye West

Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you... Something that you’ve been fighting for your entire life that’s taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That’s self-love.That's why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much.The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.

~ Kanye West

Our work is never over.

~ Kanye West

Nothing in life is promised except death.

~ Kanye West

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

~ 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

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

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

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

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

~ Kanye West

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

~ Kanye West

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

~ 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

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

~ Kanye West

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.'

~ 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

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.

~ Kanye West