Ti West Quotes

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

If it wasn't for race mixing, there'd be no video girls.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

The legacy of [Martin Luther] King is the very thing that must be expanded if America is to be free and democratic in the 21st century. It's just as simple as that.

Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

I'm gonna sit here on this runway until I'm at the end of it. Because that's that thing that people slave over. That's that thing that people are slaves to. That's that thing that I'm a slave to.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

But I think I'm on track to do something even bigger. I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

When I say 'Clean water was only served to the fairer skin,' what I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

As a rapper, I feel like image is always important but even more so than image, I really love clothes, that's why I don't use stylists. I want to do it myself because I really love it.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.

I don't have one regret.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him.

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane.

Education is soul crafting.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.

I wouldn't even say that I'm a rapper. I'd say I'm more of a messenger.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?