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.
ICE CUBEDoing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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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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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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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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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”
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The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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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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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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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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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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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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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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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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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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Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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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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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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