Kanye West Quotes

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

My voice is not going to be silenced by anybody.

Don't Let Your Government Speak for You!

The more they hate you, the better you're doing.

Anyone who's speaking up about anything becomes a target.

It would be a tragedy for democracy if dissent goes away.

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

In fact, I learned on the Bill Maher show that I can survive the audience booing at me, the guests hating me, Sarah Silverman mocking me, that I can survive. That's a lesson right there for people on the right.

Along the way there's going to be a lot of obstacles, a lot of adversity, a lot of people who will tell you you're not good enough. I'm here to tell you that you are. Everyone that tells you that you're not is because they didn't accomplish something.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.