Kanye West Quotes

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

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• Islam means peace.

  

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• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

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• I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.

  

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• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

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• Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

  

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• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

  

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• I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

  

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• I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

  

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• I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

  

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• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

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• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

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• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

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• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

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• The Internet is a toilet. It is.

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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• You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.

  

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• Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'

  

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• The slum is the measure of civilization.

  

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• I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Hate