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" 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. "

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" I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic. "

" 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.' "

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

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" I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever. "

" 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. "

" We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it. "

" I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power. "

" I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn. "

" 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. "

" The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses. "

" Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. "

" 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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" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead. "

" I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. "

" I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs. "

" The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride? "

" 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. "

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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. "

" I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. "

" 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. "

" I have decided in 2020 to run for president. "

" I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it. "

" I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. "

" I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "