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Ice Cube Quotes

I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it’s a yogurt, but a lot of times it’s leftovers from one of my wife’s dinners.

– Ice Cube

When I did ‘Boyz N The Hood’, I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

– Ice Cube

You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.

– Ice Cube

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.

– Ice Cube

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

– 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

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

– Ice Cube

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. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it’s just not in me to do. So I don’t do it.

– Ice Cube

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.

– Ice Cube

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.

– Ice Cube

My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it ‘Datsun’ – now it’s ‘Nissan.’ Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it… but it was my transportation.

– Ice Cube

We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

– Ice Cube

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

– Ice Cube

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

– Ice Cube

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

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.

– Ice Cube

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, ‘You don’t have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin’ look like jerkin.’

– Ice Cube

Sports without music, it’s nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

– Ice Cube

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

– Ice Cube

You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.

– Ice Cube

I still enjoy doing music. I’m not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

– Ice Cube

I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

– Ice Cube

Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out. They don’t want to and they don’t have the means to sustain it. That’s where my heart is and that’s what I think about all the time.

– Ice Cube

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

– Ice Cube

I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

– Ice Cube

I’ve got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain’t going nowhere. I’m going to die with that in my casket.

– Ice Cube

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

– Ice Cube

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.

– Ice Cube

But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

– Ice Cube

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

– Ice Cube

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