377 Quotes by Ice Cube

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

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.

I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through.

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

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

South Central is just who I am. 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.

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

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.