"If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything."
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Kanye West quotes (page 4 of 25)
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"I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem."
"You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing."
"I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings."
"Love your haters - they're your biggest fans"
"I've been outta my mind a long time."
"I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them."
"Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side"
"There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for."
"I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle."
"I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times."
"I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest."
"I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant."
"Living well eliminates the need for revenge."
"Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?"
"I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity."
"Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun."
"My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them."
"Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC."
"Let the music defuse all the tension."