Kanye West

When you want to express yourself, a lot of times words can get in the way.

I’m going to Adidas, ‘Adidas, I know you’ve never made a shoe under $50 but we have to make a shoe that costs $30 and it’s going to be coolest shoe of all.’

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family.

I don’t really get nervous, I prepare. When the music messed up in the beginning, it tapped into my nerves and when you’re nervous and vulnerable, something special and something different can happen.

When I see people go at the President, why not try love, for one person to stand up against all odds and just hug somebody the way that Alice Johnson hugged her family when she got out of jail?.

The whole concept for the Yeezus album is that we’re not going to be using CDs in the future and since this is the last time we’re going to see it, this is an open casket for the CD.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

There is no need to be afraid of having faults, because knowing we have them can help us to improve.

Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

Unite to win. Divide to conquer.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

If you are going to dream, dream big.