Quotes by Kanye West

"People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!"

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"Nothing in life is promised except death."

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"Art is to be free. Design is to fix."

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"I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'"

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"Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun."

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"I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness."

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"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."

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"For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success."

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"All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race."

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