Kanye West Quotes 1–30 of 56 Quotes

Kanye Omari West (pronounced ) (born June 8, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur based in Chicago, Illinois.

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“If you have the opportunity to play this game called life, you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don't appreciate their moment until it's passed.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: 2005 Grammy acceptance speech

“I know everybody asked me the question, they wanted to know, 'What, Kan, I know he's gonna wile out, I know he's gonna do something crazy.' Everybody wanted to know what I would do, if I didn't win... I guess we'll never know!”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: 2005 Grammy acceptance speech

“I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, 'They're looting.' You see a white family, it says, 'They're looking for food.'”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Live NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief“ on September. 2, 2005

“George Bush doesn't care about black people.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Live on NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief“ on September 2 2005

“I am Warhol. I am the number 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney. Nike. Google.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: 2013 Interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c&t=16m59s

“The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hip hop. You show people that you're hip hop by what you wear.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: 2013 Interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c

“You ain't got the answers Sway!”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: In response to Sway suggesting he start a clothing company on his own. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c&t=17m20s

“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Tweet http://twitter.com/#!/kanyewest/status/27590685489

“I still think I am the greatest.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Accepting the Billboard Music Award for Artist of the Year

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“I’m just giving of my body on the stage and putting my life at risk, literally. [...] 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

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Quote source: Interview for Saturday Night Online [3:12]. http://www.saturdaynightonline.com/media/play/24063493/

“I open the debate… The 2nd verse of New Slaves is the best rap verse of all time….meaning … OF ALL TIME IN THE HISTORY OF RAP MUSIC, PERIOD”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Twitter, July 20, 2013

“Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them. Ask yourself this question, "Why would they do that?" Obviously, you bring something to the table for them to even do business with you”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009) p.3-4

“Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009) p.13-14

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

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009) p.19

“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

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Quote source: Thank You and You're Welcome (2009) p.22

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

— Kanye West

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“And I'm a big tipper I don't need to be tripping? This my first Rolex it don't even be ticking This my first pair of earrings I can wear in the shower, Without them clouding up in half an hour.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: My Baby, produced by Kanye West

“You don't remember when you was my sweetest You don't remember I called you Reeces Pieces Cause it's no wrong way to do you know what.”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Talk About Our Love, featuring Kanye West

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“I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy”

— Kanye West

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Quote source: Last Call

“And I was almost famous, now everybody love Kanye I'm almost Raymond”

— Kanye West

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“I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / I didn't play the hand I was dealt I changed my cards / I prayed to the skies and I changed my stars / I went to the malls and I balled too hard / Oh My God is that a Black card / I turned around and replied why yes, but I prefer the term African American Express”

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“Brains, power and muscle like Dame Puffy and Russel / Your boy back on his hustle, you know what Ive been up to / killing y'all niggas on tha lyrical shit / Mayonnaise-Color Benz, I push Miracle Whips”

— Kanye West

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“Man, I promise I'm so self conscious/Thats why you always see me with at least one of my watches”

— Kanye West

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“And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.”

— Kanye West

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“We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need 'em/Things we buy to cover up what's inside/Cause they make us hate our-self and love they wealth.”

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“Now niggas can't make it to ballots to choose leadership But we can make it to Jacob and to the dealership That's why I hear new music And I just don't be feeling it Racism still alive they just be concealing it”

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“My flow is in the pocket like Wallace I got the bounce like hydraulics I can't call it I got the swerve like alcoholics”

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