Quotes By Kendrik Lamar

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.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you've got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what's gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that's in the industry has lost their edge.

I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Me, as a person, I grow. I'm like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I always thought it was me against the world and then one day I realized it's just me against me.

Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.

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

Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust God.

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

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

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

Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.

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

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

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.