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.
ICE CUBEEarly in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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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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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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.
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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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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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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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