Kanye West Quotes

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I know what my identity is.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have no issues with my identity.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.