Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"You may be talented but you're not Kanye West."
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George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"One of the tricks of the west is to use or create images, they create images of a person who doesn't go along with their views and then they make certain that this image is distasteful, and then anything that that person has to say from thereon, from thereon in, is rejected."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Mae West
Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
"JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it."
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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast."
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"The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World"
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"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."
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"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."
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"Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine."
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"You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point"
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"I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast."
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"It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist."
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"Galleries in the West have probably been looking for exoticism. That's the reason my paintings initially sold well, I think. And then once they started selling, people said my works were very detailed. They may have represented something Japanese to them."
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"In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them."
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"Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world."
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"If you want to go east, don't go west."
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"The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff."
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"I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made up of human effort, partly affirmation, partly identification of the Other."
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"By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance."
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"If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six."
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"You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'"
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"Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West."
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"Portraits are to daily faces As an evening west To a fine, pedantic sunshine In a satin vest."
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"The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her."
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