[Referring to his own quote "Everything I’m not made me everything I am."]: In my humble opinion, that's a prophetic statement. Gandhi would have said something like that.

West is commenting on his earlier self-mythologizing line, “Everything I’m not made me everything I am,” treating it as more than a clever aphorism: he frames it as “prophetic,” i.e., a statement that foretells or authorizes his later identity and success. By invoking Gandhi, he borrows the moral prestige of a revered spiritual-political figure to elevate a personal narrative of adversity into a universal lesson. The remark also illustrates a recurring feature of West’s public persona—grand comparisons and a belief that his artistic self-understanding carries historical weight—while recasting negation (“everything I’m not”) as the engine of self-creation.