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

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

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.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

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

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

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

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

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!

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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.

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.'

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.