Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
ICE CUBEI been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there’s nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through.
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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
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There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.
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You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.
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