Kanye West Quotes

“..my music isn't just music- its medicine.”
― Kanye West

“Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre”
― Robert Hughes

“The prettiest people do the ugliest things.”
― Kanye West

“As we live, our hearts turn colder. Cause pain is what we go through, as we become older. We get insulted by others, lose trust for those others. We get back stabbed by friends. It becomes harder for us to give others a hand. We get our heart broken by people we love, even that we give them all we have. Then we lose family over time. What else could rust the heart more over time? Blackgold.”
― Kanye West

“you’ve got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you’re just everyone else”
― Kanye West

“I am not a fan of books.”
― Kanye West

“Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans”
― Dean Cavanagh

“Kanye lied when he said diamonds are forever
When the heat is high, it’s the same as lead on paper

We gradually recreate the movie World War Z
Our worst disease becomes our best form of remedy

Moving sands, no firm ground, we live in fear
We join hands, bottle down, pop the Belvedere

Now the question is have we all punched our clocks? Social media, we fit in a damn box”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Kanye lied when he said diamonds are forever
When the heat is high, it’s the same as lead on paper

We gradually recreate the movie World War Z
Our worst disease becomes our best form of remedy

Moving sands, no firm ground, we live in fear
We join hands, bottle down, pop the Belvedere

Now the question is have we all punched our clocks?
Social media, we fit in a damn box”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Sometimes it takes a crazy person to see the world clearly.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible

“Kanye West is not speaking incoherently. He's speaking as if he is in the studio. He's been communication through song for so long that he, simply, has forgotten how to talk. I'm wondering if he hears a beat.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Let’s discuss our Swoosh-less Nike sneaker for a moment. My guess is that if you removed the branding from a pair of Nike Dunk sneakers, they would be worth no more than twenty-five percent of their retail price. That means that at least seventy-five percent of the value of a Nike sneaker is tied up in the emotional elements you can’t see or touch, the intangibles. But just because you can’t see them or touch them doesn’t mean they aren’t real.
For a parallel example, let’s look at Kanye West’s relationship with Adidas. Kanye has little or no athletic prowess—he’s a musi- cian, a tastemaker, a hype man. Whatever you may think of Kanye, he gets people talking and has been able to use his brand to create value for his partners. And that’s exactly what he did when he designed a line of sneakers for Adidas, the Yeezy Boost.
In February 2015, a limited run of his shoes sold out within ten minutes at a retail price of two hundred dollars. The shoes were then released to a wider audience a month later and once again sold out in record time. This is where things start to get interesting. According to Complex magazine, in the following quarter the Yeezy Boost accounted for $2.3 million in sales on eBay, three times the gross sales of its closest competitor, for an average price of $751 per pair. Let’s generously assume it cost Adidas fifty dollars per pair to produce and market a pair of Yeezy Boost. If that’s the case, Kanye West’s creativity is worth $701 per pair, and that doesn’t include the halo value to the overall Adidas brand.”
― Alan Philips, The Age of Ideas: Unlock Your Creative Potential

“Kanye lied when he said diamonds are forever
When the heat is high, it’s the same as lead on paper

We gradually recreate the movie World War Z
Our worst disease becomes our best form of remedy

Moving sands, no firm ground, we live in fear
We join hands, bottle down, pop the Belvedere

Now the question is have we all punched our clocks
Social media, we fit in a damn box”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“[...] white supremacy and coloniality still form the glue for the institutional and intellectual disciplinarity of western critical thought. Since the ideas of the Black Panther Party are limited to concerns with ethnic racism elsewhere, they do not register as thought qua thought, and can thus be exploited by and elevated to universality only in the hands of European thinkers such as Foucault, albeit without receiving any credit. [Dear reader, if this reminds you of the colonial expropriation of natural resources, you would be neither wrong nor alone in making such an assumption. In the words of Kanye West: that shit cray.]”
― Alexander G. Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human

“What’s next for Kanye West? Maybe expulsion from a school that didn’t even admit him in the first place.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“An awful season for Kanye West. They are removing him from here and there. They will soon remove him from west and send him to east. He will then become Kanye East.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu