Kanye West
(1977-)

African-American Rapper , Philanthropist

birthdate: June 8
birthplace:
Atlanta, Georgia

QUOTES

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

I started the Kanye West Foundation out of a sense of moral and social responsibility to utilize my success and celebrity to help poor children. Please help support the Kanye West Foundation.

if you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it`s passed

“We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside.”

“"Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs"”

“How we stop the black panthers? Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer You hear that? What Gil Scott was hearin When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin. Crack raised the murder rate in DC and Maryland We invested in that it's like we got Merril-Lynch And we been hangin from the same tree ever since”

They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us”

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