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.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street, and people look at me like I'm [expletive] insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through and one day people will understand everything I ever did.

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

If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.

"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.

I feel like me and Taylor [Swift] might still have sex. Why? I made that b - -h famous.