Top 197 Quotes & Sayings by Kendrick Lamar - Page 2

Black and brown pride have been taught in my household for a long time.

My parents were fairly young in the city of Compton. So the things that they played - you know, that was the hip crowd. So I was being exposed to all these ideas, from Big Daddy Kane to Eazy-E to the Bay Area - Too Short, E-40 - you know, back to Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.

I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

We're all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

The Universe energy doesn't lie.

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

No matter how much good things are going on around you, you still have them little negative things that just wanna come out in front. But you bottle them in because you have so many other great things, but they still there.

The one in front of the gun lives forever

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul.

Life Will Put Many Red Lights In Front Of You, But Sometimes We Must Push On The Gas And Trust God

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared.

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa

Just let me be me, That's the only way I know.

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

The message I'm sending to myself - I can't change the world until I change myself first.

I'm standing on a field full of landmines doing the moonwalk hoping i blow up in time

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

I'd rather not live like there isn't a God Then die and find out there really is Think about it

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat

It's the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don't see it, All i see is a blur

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable.

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you?