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.
ICE CUBEDon’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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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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 love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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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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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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I’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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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 definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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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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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
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I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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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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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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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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