209 Quotes by Kendrick Lamar

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

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.

I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I’m conflicted; you’re conflicted. I’m not perfect – nobody is. I’m just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.

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.

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

I was a black sheep, but now I’m just a goat.

The hardest thing for - not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

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