Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
ICE CUBEMoney 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.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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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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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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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 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 love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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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.”
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I’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
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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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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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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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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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