The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

In today‘s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

You’re not perfect, but you‘re not your mistakes.

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.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, ‘What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?’ And, ‘How does creativity apply across the board?’

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

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don’t have any insecurities.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would‘ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

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.

You basically can say anything to someone on an email or text as long as you put LOL at the end.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Everything I’m not makes me everything I am

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Our work is never over.

We gonna touch the sky.

Even a broke clock is right twice a day

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

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.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

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.

It’s always going to be a fight for anyone who isn’t an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn’t have a fight.

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 ain’t crazy, I’m just not satisfied.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.

Why everything that’s supposed to be bad
Make me feel so good?

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Everyone‘s always telling you to be humble. When was the last time someone told you to be great?

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I still think I am the greatest.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I’m inspired by Walt Disney. I’m inspired by Howard Hughes. I’m inspired by Henry Ford. I’m inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I’m inspired by James Perse.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Okay, for me, first of all, dopeness is what I like the most.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

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

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy‘s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

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.

I don’t know what’s better gettin’ laid or gettin’ paid.

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

For me to say I wasn’t a genius I’d just be lying to you and to myself

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won‘t get played Huh?

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.