American - Musician | June 8, 1977 -
But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West
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It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.
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It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
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I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.
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I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.
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Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
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Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.'
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I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
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