Ice Cube Quotes

I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

Today I didn't even have to even use my A.K ! I got to say it was a good day

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.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

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."

You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

There's nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. 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.

Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

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.

My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.

If the day did not require an AK then it was good

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

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.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.

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.

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.

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.

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

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.

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

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.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

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.

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.

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.

You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.