For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself
I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.
I feel that I'm very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.
I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.
Memories have to be our most painful blessing.
People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic
Every time I crash the Internet, it's like this little drop of truth. Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet. So what are we getting all of the rest of the time?
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.
The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?
Everything I'm not makes me everything I am
My attitude is tattooed that means it's permanent
We're not always in the position that we want to be at. We're constantly growing, we're constantly making mistakes, we're constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.
It's about whatever I want to make it about. It's my world.
I would rather sit in a factory than sit in a Maybach.
If you ask me a question like what is your greatest accomplishment, it should be what I’m about to do
I live and breathe every element in life.
The prettiest people do the ugliest things.
What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.
So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.
I had a dream I can buy my way to heaven.
Love your haters - they're your biggest fans
Being fresh is more important than having money.
George W. Bush doesn't care about black people.
Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.
I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.
People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.
I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.
Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'
Everyone's always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?
If you’re taught you can't do anything you won't do anything, I was taught I could do everything.
I understand culture. I am the nucleus.
They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.
I don’t like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.
I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
Success is the best revenge.
Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermès factory. Sh*t is real.
Thank God I'm not too cool for a seatbelt.
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away.
I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.
I will spark a generation of thinkers who will question traditional thought until they find the absolute truth.
Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you.
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.
I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?
I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.
Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness
Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.
It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.
If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.
Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
Even a broke clock is right twice a day
Living well eliminates the need for revenge.
Slavery is more mental than anything
Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.
Man… ninjas are kind of cool… I just don’t know any personally.
I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.
The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.
If you have power, you have to empower.
People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.
When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...
Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.
There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.
I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.
We gonna touch the sky.
I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
Wait 'till I get my money right.
Nothing is promised in life except death.
Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.
Let the music defuse all the tension.
If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
I've been outta my mind a long time.
This is my life homie, you decide yours
Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?
You may be talented but you're not Kanye West.
I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.
When you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.
You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.
I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything
I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.
My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!
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.
I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.
I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.
For me giving up is way harder than trying.
I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.
I don't expect to be understood at all.
They say ya additude determines ya laditude.
I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope.
I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].
I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
Benjamin Franklin didnt win 21 Grammys right?
I've been saying how I feel at the wrong time.
I don't particularly like photos of myself, though.
Why everything that's supposed to be bad Make me feel so good?
Nothing in life is promised except death.
I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?
Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.
I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.
They say your attitude determines your latitude.
To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory.
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.
Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years. The time is now. The time is now to express yourself. The time is now to believe in yourself.
I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.
Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.
Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.
No flip flops for black dudes. I don’t care where you at. Wear some hot ass Jordans on the beach.
