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" This dark diction has become America's addiction. "
Kanye West
Dark
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" 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. "
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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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" Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. "
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" In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. "
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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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" I have decided in 2020 to run for president. "
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" I love sleep; it's my favorite. "
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" I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power. "
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" The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me. "
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