The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
ICE CUBEI 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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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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I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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 like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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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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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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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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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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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.
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