Kanye West Quotes

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Kanye West

Profession : Rapper

Birth : June 8, 1977

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

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For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

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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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All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

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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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Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

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Our work is never over.

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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

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

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

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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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Nothing in life is promised except death.

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