Kanye West

“Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.”

“Art is to be free. Design is to fix.”

“I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.”

“Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.”

“In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.”

“I still think I am the greatest.”

“I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.”

“I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.”

“I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.”

“I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'”

“But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.”

“Why not start figuring out ways to change the way we treat each other? The way we talk to each other, the way we talk about each other. To love each other. You know it starts off with self-love. We have to love ourselves before we can love anybody else.And the media from day one, from when you were little ass kids, they teach you not to love yourself. They take something out of you and they try to sell it back to you... Something that you’ve been fighting for your entire life that’s taken from you as a child. That you always had inside of you. That’s self-love.That's why I love you so much, cause as everybody knows, I love me so much.The greatest gift you have is your now…you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow and the past is the past.”

“I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.”

“The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.”

“Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.”