1. "What I was trying to express in the interview was me, I know I’m hip-hop and I’m a rapper and everything but I’ve got ideas that can mean something if I can put the proper production around them."
2. "But currently in fashion, there's no black guy at the end of the runway in Paris, in all honesty."
3. "But Michael Jackson had to fight to get his videos on MTV because he was considered to be urban. So for me, think about this, when I’m in Paris and I’m sitting in fashion week for nine years and South Park makes fun of our outfits or people don’t understand why I’m there and I’m getting called names, stuff you can’t even say on TV, and I still can’t break that wall down, at a certain point it’s like Michael Jackson trying to get his videos on."
4. "My grandfather drove the first cars in the marches just to get clean water and one of the parallels i want to do for you is Richard Pryor always just wanted a clean plate, he just wanted to serve his stuff up on a clean plate. So if I do an interview in W Magazine and they take all these classist shots at me — because it’s not about racism anymore, it’s classist, like Paula Deen she was old school, we don’t do it like that anymore, we’re classist. So the classism is what they try to do is to say ‘You’re a rapper or your girl’s on a reality show so you’re not up here with us, we’re old money.’ I’m not into all that snobbery, because we have the loudest voice, we have the loudest communication, and all we want to do is make awesome stuff. All we want is a real shot."
5. "Then a lot of people say you have to do music. I’ll keep doing music, but what if people told me I couldn’t rap, what if people told me I couldn’t perform. I’m only 36 years old, I have other goals and other things and I’m going to use my platform, every platform, to stand up and say, 'I want to make something.'"
6. "People don’t stand up and protect their dreams, people are too scared of getting spoofed, in a way."
7. "There were moments where I stood up to drug dealers in Chicago, I said, 'You can’t have my publishing, come and kill me, do what you’re gonna do but you’re not gonna bully me, you’re not gonna stop me.' Because my mother made me believe in myself… No matter how many people tell me, 'Stop believe in yourself, stop saying what you can do, stop affirming what you can do and completing that in real life.'"
8. "I refuse to follow those rules that society has set up and the way they control people with low self-esteem, with improper information, with branding, with marketing. I refuse to follow those rules. It’s about truth, it’s about information, it’s about awesomeness, and the only luxury is time, the time you spend with your family."
9. "The concept of luxury is foreign to me. With Nike, with Apple? Did you know there were phones that cost $4,000? ... There are people who spend $5,000 on this bag, $10,000 on this, to say what I said before, to say ‘We’re better than you.'"
10. "I mean, taste, culture, art, just the quality of life, this is what I’m here to do. So when I compare myself to Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, David Stern, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Jesus, whoever it is, I say these are my heroes, these are people that I look up to, this is the type of impact I want to make on the Earth."
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