Kanye West Quotes

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

I want people to feel that they've gotten to know the people in the film a little bit, gotten to see Pine Ridge in ways they haven't seen before. I think that's a good start.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.

Why do my movies make people feel so dead inside?

I want to know why this is such a part of me. I want to know why this thing that happened to other people has happened so much to me. I keep looking for the lesson.

A lot of people hear it in a dark way, but, I think, without saying the word too many times, it's empowering, and so we wanted to display that in a way that the listener wouldn't see normally.

I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.

I don't want to hurt people.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.

The happiest of people is the one under whose care people are happy because of him, and the most miserable of people is the one under whose care people are miserable because of him.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.