Kendrick Lamar Quotes

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

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.

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

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

The one in front of the gun lives forever

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.

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

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

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

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

I'm constantly thinking.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

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.

Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!