Kanye West Quotes

Don't imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that's a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

Don't try to be me. No one but me can be me. But you can be you. Look inside yourself and get to know who the real you is. And then be that person. The best version of you.

I think when you start changing things, you're not being yourself.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves. They want to be 50 Cent or someone else. They do what everyone else does even if it doesn’t fit where and who they are. But you get nowhere that way; your energy is weak and no one pays attention to you. You’re running away from the one thing that you own – what makes you different. I lost that fear. And once I felt the power that I had by showing the world I didn’t care about being like other people, I could never go back.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

Don't be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically true. Many ideas have been given to you: become like a Buddha, become like Jesus. become like Krishna - as if you have to become everybody else EXCEPT yourself. As if God is only against you. He's for Krishna, for Christ, for Mahavir, for Buddha - only against you. Then why does He create you? Then He seems simply foolish. Why does He go on creating you? If He's interested in Buddha, Hc can create Buddhas. Why you?

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.