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 CUBEThe 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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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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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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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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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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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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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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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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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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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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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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