Ice Cube Quotes

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

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.

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

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."

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

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

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.

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.