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" I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. "
Kanye West
I Am
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" 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 school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus. "
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" I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities. "
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" 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! "
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" I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. "
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" My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. "
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" I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. "
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" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "
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" 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. "
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" I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I'm going to say how I feel. "
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" Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible. "
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" All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. "
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" I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.' "
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" We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew. "
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" I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14. "
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" I have decided in 2020 to run for president. "
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" I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory. "
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