"I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark,..." - Quote by Kanye West

“Nothing in life is promised except death.”

“I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.”

“We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.”

“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”

“One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?”

“The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.”

“Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.”

“If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.”