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"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."
"Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don'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."
"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.""
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."