Kanye West is the most outspoken man in hip-hop. Kanye West quotes range from the hilarious to the political, but whatever it is we can always count on Yeezy to say exactly what’s on his mind. Kanye always says and does things that we’re thinking but would never actually say or do. Kanye West quotes may cause controversy, but they’re always interesting at the very least. Here are some of our favorite Kanye West quotes.
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.”
“If y’all fresh to death, then I’m deceased.”
“They say, he must had an angel, cuss look how death missed his ass. Unbreakable, what you thought they’d call me Mr. Glass?”
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“During my high school years, it’s the music that I really felt saved me. It kept me out of the streets, it kept me from getting into trouble, it gave me something to do when I got kicked off the basketball team. You just get lost in the music. That’s what I did.”
“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.”
“How we stop the black panthers?
Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer
You hear that?
What Gil Scott was hearin
When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin.
Crack raised the murder rate in DC and Maryland
We invested in that it’s like we got Merril-Lynch
And we been hangin from the same tree ever since”
‘I hate the word hate!’
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‘Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!’
‘Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.’
‘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.’
‘We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.’
‘People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.’
