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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. "

Kanye West

Welcome

Chocolate

Myself

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

" 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. "

" George Bush doesn't care about black people. "

" I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic. "

" It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say. "

" This dark diction has become America's addiction. "

" 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. "

Kanye West

Saying

Life

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

" I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kanye West

Time

Stand

" I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. "

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. "

" Our work is never over. "

" 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 don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid. "

" In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28. "

" I am not a fan of books. "

Kanye West

Books

I Am

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

Kanye West

Music

People

" It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight. "

" My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite. "

" My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. "

" I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones. "

" 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. "