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Creativity Quote by Kanye West

"Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?"

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Kanye West frames a complaint as a question, but it lands like a dare. The line pivots on that loaded “accepted,” a word that’s less about permission to make things and more about who gets to be taken seriously when they do. “Good in one field” is a backhanded label: praise that doubles as a fence. He’s pointing at the cultural habit of treating artists like single-use products - the rapper who must remain a rapper, the producer who must stay behind the curtain - and at the gatekeepers who police those borders with awards categories, critical expectations, and brand logic.

The subtext is pure Kanye: he’s arguing for renaissance-person ambition while also insisting the world recognize his own. “Slightest opportunity” is strategic melodrama, a reminder that even immense fame doesn’t automatically translate into legitimacy elsewhere. Celebrity can buy access, but not credibility; the doors open, the room still rolls its eyes. That tension helps explain why his forays into fashion, design, and tech have often been received as either visionary or laughable, rarely just “work.”

Context matters because West’s career has been a long fight against being compartmentalized - first as a producer dismissed as not “real” enough to rap, then as a rapper insisting on broader authorship. The question isn’t naive. It’s an indictment of a culture that celebrates “creativity” as a slogan while enforcing a rigid hierarchy of who’s allowed to experiment without being punished for it.

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West, Kanye. (2026, January 15). Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/why-if-someone-is-good-in-one-field-can-they-not-156466/

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West, Kanye. "Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/why-if-someone-is-good-in-one-field-can-they-not-156466/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/why-if-someone-is-good-in-one-field-can-they-not-156466/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Kanye West (born June 8, 1977) is a Musician from USA.

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