I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
ICE CUBEI 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.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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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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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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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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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.
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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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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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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.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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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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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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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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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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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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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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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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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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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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If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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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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I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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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 hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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