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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. "
Kanye West
Saying
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Life
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" I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. "
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" You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist. "
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" If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up 'humble,' 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It's a controlling word. It's a way to control the masses and to control the sheep. "
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" 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. "
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" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "
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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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" 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. "
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" George Bush doesn't care about black people. "
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" I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides. "
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" People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people. "
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" 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. "
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" Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun. "
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