Kanye West Quotes

I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well, I don't think I want to go. I want to be my own design.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

Let's let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

… not to destroy individualism but to protect it

Why shouldn't I do what I want to do... I'm an American citizen.

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.

Do what you really want to do. Don't play their game! Don't do what they want. Find your own way.

I don't give a damn what other people think. It's entirely their own business. I'm not writing for other people.

Let me live my life the way I want to.

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

Nobody can tell you what to do. No matter what they pay you. No matter what obligations you feel you owe them. Every second defines you. Be who you are, not who anyone else is, or who anyone else wants you to be.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

Build therefore your own world.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.