“Proud non-reader” Kanye West turns author.
Rapper Kanye West does not read books or respect them but nevertheless he has written one that he would like you to buy and read.
Please note: This is not a joke.
His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words — and offers his optimistic philosophy on life. One two-page section reads, “Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!” Another page reads “I hate the word hate!”
“‘This is a collection of thoughts and theories,’ West, 31, said in an interview about his spiral-bound volume, which was written with J. Sakiya Sandifer… ‘My favorite one is ‘Get used to being used.’”
And yet “Get used to being used” is not, apparently, printed at the bottom of sales receipts and given to people who buy the book.
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.”
Says the famously un-self-absorbed West, who, instead of selfishly writing fiction, is publishing a collection of his own sayings.
“I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph.
“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,” he said.
West, a college dropout, said being a non-reader was helpful when he wrote his book because it gave him “a childlike purity.”
“West dedicates the book to his late mother.”
That’s his mother Donda West — an English professor.
And now I’m going to step outside, because I need to shake my head really hard to clear it, and I don’t want to crash into the walls and furniture.
(Via Book Ninja.)
