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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. "
Kanye West
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" It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs. "
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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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" Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids. "
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" In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. "
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" Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. "
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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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" Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference. "
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" 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. "
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" I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice. "
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" Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. "
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" Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. "
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" 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? "
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" 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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" 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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Me
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" My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened. "
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Me
" If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. "
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World
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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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" We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew. "
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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 don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. "
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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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" I don't use blue. I don't like it. It bugs me out. I hate it. "
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" I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid. "
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" Nothing in life is promised except death. "
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" I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. "
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" Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. "
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" You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. "
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" 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. "
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