Kanye West

I don’t have a sound bite for everything.

[Trump] will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he’s got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can’t be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community. So it’s something he’s gonna work towards, but we’re gonna have to speak to him.

That one by one by one we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we’re in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.

[on his SNL performance wearing a MAGA hat] They bullied me backstage. They said don’t go out there with that hat on. They bullied me backstage. They bullied me.

We don’t want to be influenced, just informed.

It’s a time for the unconventional. I’m not a traditional thinker. I’m a non-conformist. So [Trump’s victory] relates to the non-conformist part of me.

When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money, too.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

I’m rich beyond my wildest dreams.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

I’m bout this shmoney!