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 CUBEI think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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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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I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
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I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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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 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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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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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 think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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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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