"I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also."
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"You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead."
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"I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers."
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"Wait 'till I get my money right."
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"I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth."
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"Us as a people, we can't do it on our own. We have to understand that we're not each other's enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position."
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"Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!"
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""Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves.""
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"People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try."
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"Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off."
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"Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!"
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"Don't Ever fix your lips like collagen And say something when you gon' end up apologing"
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"Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing."
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"I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men's polo shirt. We weren't there, like, ready for war."
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"I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
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"No one man should have all that power."
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"When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most."
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"I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself."
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"I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?"
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"It seem like everybody dress tight now, And I just want my credit."
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