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How you gon na bring me to' SNL' and kiss the dude you dating right in front of me ? and everybody's like,' Oh, that's, that's cool.' After I went [ and ] got the laptop from Ray J Kanye West that night, right ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to shield them from as much as I can, and if I had the power to or if Kanye has the power to, like that is just the most important thing to me. And I'm just so emotional because of it.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This boy thought he could get away with performing this sketch for the team that wrote this for him This is not harassment This is payback.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I mean, it’s all just happening so quickly. I’m going with the universe and the flow and seeing where it takes me … where it takes all of us.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I believe because God has given me a gift that I pray for and so many people love.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Like, for me, Playboywas my gateway into full-on pornography addiction, my dad had aPlayboyleft out at age five and its affected almost every choice I made for the rest of my life.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
God's always had a plan for me and he always wanted to use me, but I think he wanted me to suffer more and wanted people to see my suffering and see my pain... so now when I talk about how Jesus saved me more people can relate to that experience.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It was the first shoe to have the same level of impact as an Air Jordan, and I wanted to do more.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
People are allowed to say anything about it and discriminate in any way.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
You have this moment [ where ] you feel everyone wants to kill you. You pretty much don't trust anyone, when you're in this state, you're hyper-paranoid about everything, everyone.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I have been calling Colin this morning, reaching him so I can bring Colin to the White House and we can remove that' sons of bitches' statement and we can be on the same page.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Well it has, there's people getting paid 8 cents a week working for companies that are privately owned and a lot of them are first-time offenders. A lot of them are non-violent crimes.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When you hear about slavery for 400 years... For 400 years ? That sounds like a choice, you were there for 400 years and it's all of y' all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I don't know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel, so I want to take this moment right now to say... I'm sorry for people who felt let down by that moment.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he's got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can't be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of you all? Like, we’re mentally in prison. Like, slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks, so prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race. We’re the human race.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I don't know if I properly apologized for how that slave comment made people feel, so I want to take this moment right now to say that I'm sorry for hurting, I'm sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave comment, and I'm sorry for people who felt let down by that moment, and also I appreciate you guys giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the way I was thinking and what I was going through and what led me to that.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I ’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I was n’t stumped. I was n’t given a chance to answer the question, the question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break. That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I think it's important to have open conversations about mental health -- especially with me being black. Because we never had therapists in the black community. We never approached taking medication.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said, liberals can't bully me ; news can't bully me ; the hip-hop community, they can't bully me. Because at that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer Ye. That's what makes Ye. And I actually quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things -- you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over, i'd get kicked out of the black community because blacks, we are supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats and all.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think everybody got something, but like I said on the album, it’s not a disability. It’s a superpower.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I was so self-conscious about the nanny and the housekeeper that I didn't want them to hear me screaming in the living room, i think that that's such a metaphor of something for the existence of so-called well-off people that they're not really well-off -- they won't even scream in their own house.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I said the idea of sitting in something for 400 years sounds -- sounds -- like a choice to me, I never said it's a choice, i never said slavery itself -- like being shackled in chains -- was a choice.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He could look at me and you know, I don't know why he mentioned suicide, but he could tell that I was very low, really medicated, shoulders slumped down, and my confidence was gone, which is a lot of the root of my superpower, because if you truly have self-confidence, no one can say anything to you.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Oh yeah, I've thought about killing Kanye West all the time. It's always a option and [ expletive ], like Louis C.K. said : I flip through the manual. I weigh all the options.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Don't call me, after the robbery, and say' How you feelin' ?' You wan na know how I'm feeling ? Come by the house, bring the kids by the house, like we're brothers.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I’m so blessed and so privileged because think about people that have mental issues that are not Kanye West that can’t go and make that and make it feel like it’s all good, think about somebody does exactly what I did at TMZ and they do that at work but then Tuesday morning they come in and they’ve lost their job. But they can’t go in there and make that. That’s why God put that on me.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I had never been diagnosed [with a mental condition] until I was 39, but like I said on the album, it’s not a disability, it’s a superpower.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
When you hear about slavery for 400 years, for 400 years ? That sounds like a choice.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He’s doing really good, he’s in Wyoming recording, he has a couple of albums coming out so he’s just focused on that.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
[ T ] o make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Being in competition with so many elements at one time. On a race against time, your age, you're getting old, race against popularity on the radio. ' Saint Pablo' ain't playing.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Sometimes a conversation can help show respect for a situation.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You know, I got ta say I was hurt about them not coming to the wedding, i understand they were going through some things. If it's family then you know you're not going to miss a wedding. I'm not using this interview to put any negative thing [ out ], but I have to state my truth.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We good. We're texting each other as positive energy, i haven't seen him, but I can feel him.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I might be president one day, i might be in that situation where it's harder for me to explain to the masses why something isn't happening that they feel the concept of a president should be able to fix.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This partnership illustrates that anyone with a dream can dream without limitations.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It’s not about Kanye West. It’s not about Taylor Swift, there’s a lot of people in America that feel like they don’t have the platform to stand up and express their closet racism. Before they had that platform, one really easy way to express it was to say, ‘Eff Kanye West.’.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Bob please never speak in public again... you are everything that is wrong with the old guard ...
Found on CNN 8 years ago
My name is Kanye, I'm from the south side of Chicago, i'm originally a producer. I always wanted to rap and no one really believed in me, so I wanted to try some things out, ya know?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
As soon as I heard Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy. And I think all the people running right now have something that each of the others needs.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
A message to people who think Black people voted for Obama because he was Black.. F--- Ben Carson.. He's outta his Fn mind..
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's not about me. It's about ideas. New ideas. People with ideas. People who believe in truth, and yes, as you probably could've guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You know how many times they announced Taylor was going to give me the award. Because it got them more ratings. Listen to the kids, bruh!
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm not no politician, bruh, you know how many times they announced Taylor was going to give me the award. Because it got them more ratings. Listen to the kids, bruh!
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know what I finna lose after this. It don't matter, though; It's not about me. It's about ideas. New ideas. People with ideas. People who believe in truth, and yes, as you probably could've guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
You know how many times MTV ran that footage again, 'cause it got them more ratings?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I told you, don't talk to me, right, you're trying to get me in trouble so I step off and have to pay you like $250,000.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If Kim had dated me when I first wanted to be with her, there wouldn't be an Amber Rose, it's very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that's with Amber Rose... I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This is our Super Bowl, you know, and someone's gotta be mad that Marshawn didn't get the ball.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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