A cool collection of Kanye West quotes (from Canada.com)
"George Bush doesn't care about black people. They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food . . . they're giving the (army) permission to shoot us . . ."
-- said live on the NBC Hurricane Katrina relief program
"I think white people are allowed to say 'bling.' They are allowed to say old-school black slang, like 'hottie' and 'homie.' Actually, I do not think that (white people) are allowed to use slang until it is at least a year old. If you say a slang word too early, it's like you're trying to be black. So as long as the slang is a little played out, you're all good."
-- giving a lesson on using slang
"If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility."
-- said during a tantrum after he didn't win an MTV Music Video Award
"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?"
-- in an interview with Rolling Stone
"You never know how words can save a person's life, physically or otherwise. People like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi . . . - people whose job it is - I see that in Kanye."
-- Donda West, on her son, in an interview with the Baltimore Sun
"I mean, my music isn't just music - it's medicine. I want my songs to touch people, to give them what they need. Every time I make an album, I'm trying to make a cure for cancer, musically. That stresses me out!"
-- in an interview with BMI MusicWorld
"Sometimes I feel like I'm carrying the whole of hip hop myself, the state of pop music, too. I just try to push the envelope."
-- in an interview with NME.com
"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure."
-- in an interview with Rolling Stone
"It's like, you can't please everybody, but if anybody's got a shot, it's me."
-- in an interview with BMI MusicWorld
"I look at me and Justin like Prince and Michael Jackson in their day."
-- on the professional rivalry between himself and Justin Timberlake, to the AP
"I have no words."
-- to USA Today, on Britney Spears' embarrassing VMA performance
