Love him or hate him, there’s no denying that Kanye West is a symbol of our generation. If you could use an emotional pick-me-up, check out these inspirational (?) quotes from the man of many words.
1. “When someone comes up and says something like, ‘I am a god,’ everybody says, ‘Who does he think he is?’ I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That’s who I think I am.”
2. “For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.”
3. “I am Warhol! I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney. Nike. Google. Now who’s going to be the Medici family and stand up and let me create more?”
4. “Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?”
5. “When I think of competition, it’s like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.”
6. “I hate when I’m on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.”
7. “I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.”
8. “I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.”
9. “My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.”
10. “You can’t look at a glass half full or empty if it’s overflowing.”
11. “I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”