Why everything thats supposed to be bad make me feel so good? — Kanye West

"Well buy a lot of clothes, but we dont really need em Things we buy to cover up whats inside Cause they made us hate ourself and love their wealth."

"I get down for my grandfather who took my mama Made her sit in that seat where white folks aint want us to eat At the tender age of six, she was arrested for the sit-ins And with that in my blood, I was born to be different Now niggas cant make it to ballots to choose leadership But we can make it to Jacobs or to the dealership Thats why I hear new music and I just dont be feeling it Racisms still alive, they just be concealin it."

"And I still wont grow up, Im a grown-ass kid Swear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I did But Im a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph Make music thats fire, spit my soul through the wire."

"My flow is in the pocket like Wallace, I got the bounce like hydraulics, I cant call it, I got the swerve like alcoholics. My freshman year, I was going through hella problems Til I built up the nerve to drop my ass up out of college."

"How do you console my mom or give her light support Tellin her her sons on life support? And just imagine how my girl feel, On the plane scared as hell that her guy look like Emmett Till."

"It seems, we living the American dream But people highest up got the lowest self esteem. The prettiest people do the ugliest things For the road to riches and diamond rings."