Kanye West Quotes

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.

I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.

For me, leadership is tied to self-knowledge. The examined life has become one of my ideals. To lead a people, you have to know who you are, where you come from, what you believe and why, what you're prepared to fight for or even die for, where you draw your strength, why and how you share yourself, and finally, where you would want to take the nation.

When you cut through the noise, what’s really at stake is how we remain true to who we really are in a world that is remaking itself at dizzying speed.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Before I was a mum, I could live in another dimension, create another world, and it wouldn't bother me if I was not totally available or totally myself. Today I cannot do that anymore.

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.