Tag: Kanye West
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I didn’t know the term ‘synesthesia’ until I was working on ‘Cruel Summer.’ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.
Kanye West
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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.
Kanye West
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I still think I am the greatest.
Kanye West
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I’m a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I’d been in national competitions from the age of 14.
Kanye West
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You know what should be banned? Stuff that’s whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
Kanye West
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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.
Kanye West
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It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Kanye West
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The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.
Kanye West
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Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.
Kanye West
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Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.
Kanye West