black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

Ice Cube

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.
ICE CUBE

Myself Travel World
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.
ICE CUBE

Game Job Pay Politics Yourself
Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
ICE CUBE

Confusion Human Life Movie Myself
You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
ICE CUBE

Acceptance Admission Goodness Industry Yourself
I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
ICE CUBE

Ability Myself Potential Right Self Love
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
ICE CUBE

Growth Influence Music Myself
I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
ICE CUBE

Book Feeling Life Live Myself Thinking
Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
ICE CUBE

Death Life Live Myself Order
I know my flavor’s going to work because I just know there’s not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what’s that about you.
ICE CUBE

Different Figure Original Yourself
Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
ICE CUBE

Planning Start Time Yourself
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.
ICE CUBE

Comedy Darkness Fantasy Funny Ourselves Protest Record
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.
ICE CUBE

Best Creation Enjoyment Ideas Myself People World
Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
ICE CUBE

Creation Fall In Love Place Yourself
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.
ICE CUBE

Beautiful Father Life Myself Reason Work
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.
ICE CUBE

Call God Myself Nation Religion
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
ICE CUBE

Commitment Myself Reading Scripture
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
ICE CUBE

Hide Lying Power Run Truth
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
ICE CUBE

God Image Man Myself Television White
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.
ICE CUBE

Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
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 CUBE

Judgement Live Oneself Opinion People
You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
ICE CUBE

Acceptance Children Family Myself Woman
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.
ICE CUBE

Fair Place Race Sports Time
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.
ICE CUBE

Career Different Energy Fight Myself Negative People
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.
ICE CUBE

Form Important Interest Myself Reading Thinking
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.
ICE CUBE

Best Feeling Home Money Myself
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.
ICE CUBE

Bad Goodness People Small Yourself
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.
ICE CUBE

Body Bury Money Race Root

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ice Cube Quotes