The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
ICE CUBEI’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.
More Ice Cube Quotes
-
-
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 -
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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 -
Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
ICE CUBE -
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.
ICE CUBE -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there’s nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through.
ICE CUBE -
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 -
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
ICE CUBE -
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.
ICE CUBE -
You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
ICE CUBE