Kanye West

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

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.

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

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.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Our work is never over.

Love is cursed by monogamy

Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what__ right and wrong that it__ almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It__ like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn__ like pink because that__ for girls, or you__ instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone__ born confident, and everything__ taken away from you