There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.
ICE CUBEMy advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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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 reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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I 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 bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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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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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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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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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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