Kanye West Quotes

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.

While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more an effort to find a way to look good in their own individual, but natural way. I think it's a shame that it's become acceptable to wear jeans and a T-shirt to any place and function.

I like to wear boots with skirts or mini-dresses, or jeans with sneakers and jumpers, leather jackets, or a rain coat.

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.

The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.

Black is a colour of power and strength.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.

The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

I've always known the greatness of black people.

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.

What the Clintons have always done is embraced challenging. They can't have enough photo opportunities with Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. They communicate to blacks that they agree with their challenging identity. So, in a sense, Hillary is blacker than Barack Obama. Their alignment with this black identity makes them 'black' in a metaphorical sense, I guess.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.