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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.”

Ice Cube

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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Growth Influence Music Myself
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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Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
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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Creation Fall In Love Place Yourself
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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Best Creation Enjoyment Ideas Myself People World
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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Comedy Darkness Fantasy Funny Ourselves Protest Record
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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Fair Place Race Sports Time
I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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Face Happiness Myself
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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Body Bury Money Race Root
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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Bad Goodness People Small Yourself
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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Different Myself Play Seen
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Black Home People
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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Coward Myself Person Stand Thinking
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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Limitation Planning Start Wrong Yourself
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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Freedom Greatness Listening Myself People Willing
I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
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Criticize Different Honesty Myself Open
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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Act Bad Myself Person Support
Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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Death Life Live Myself Order
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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Career Change Early Inspirational Music People Try
I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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Myself Situation Thinking Worst
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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Change Impact Live Myself Remember
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Commitment Myself Reading Scripture
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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Form Important Interest Myself Reading Thinking
To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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Magic Man Myself Perfection
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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Career Enlightenment Love Myself Start Time
A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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Gratitude Hands Worth
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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Legacy Mess Scare Yourself
If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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Born Myself People Understand

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