O’Shea Jackson, known professionally by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper, actor, producer, director, and writer. Ice Cube initially gained recognition in 1986 as a member of the hip hop group N.W.A., which gained commercial success prior to disbanding around the time N.W.A formed. This Ice Cube quotes will motivate you.
Best Ice Cube Quotes
- “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.” ~ Ice Cube
- “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.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Today I didn’t even have to even use my A.K! I got to say it was a good day” ~ Ice Cube
- “I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.” ~ Ice Cube
- “If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That doesn’t go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you.” ~ Ice Cube
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“I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.” ~ Ice Cube
- “I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.” ~ Ice Cube
- “You can’t pussyfoot around. When you’re talking to lions, you can’t meow like a pussycat.” ~ Ice Cube Quotes
- “I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age, I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out… he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood “my name is Ice Cube.” ~ Ice Cube
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“Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.” ~ Ice Cube
- “If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.” ~ Ice Cube
- “There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.” ~ Ice Cube
- “Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” ~ Ice Cube
- “I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.” ~ Ice Cube
- “I think people if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you’re going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that’s the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.” ~ Ice Cube
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“I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place before we tampered with it.” ~ Ice Cube
- “There are 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.” ~ Ice Cube
- “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.” ~ 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
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“Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.” ~ Ice Cube
- “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.” ~ 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
- “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 Quotes
- “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.” ~ Ice Cube
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“If the day did not require an AK then it was good” ~ Ice Cube
- “When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, “Half of this is workin’. I’m famous, but now I need to be famous with some money.” That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I’m seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.” ~ Ice Cube
- “I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.” ~ Ice Cube
- “If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It’s the people that don’t have a chance, that we look down at like they’re monsters or they’re animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.” ~ Ice Cube
- “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.” ~ Ice Cube
- “You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it doesn’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.” ~ Ice Cube
