O’Shea Jackson also known as Ice Cube is a famous actor and rapper. He persisted and worked hard in his different careers, and has received recognition and several accolades for both. He has was a lead rapper in N.W.A. And has starred in several movies including 21 Jump Street, The Barbershop Franchise and Friday.
Here are some Ice Cube quotes that will inspire you to never give up no matter how difficult it is.
Inspiring Ice Cube Quotes
“I can’t believe, today was a good day.” – Ice Cube
“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” – Ice Cube
“Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.” – Ice Cube
“I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.” – Ice Cube
“If it was all about me, I’d do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it’s never been all about me. It’s all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can’t speak for themselves, who don’t have a mic, don’t have a say.” – Ice Cube
“I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.” – Ice Cube
“The best thing I’ve done with my money is buying a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.”
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“I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.” – Ice Cube
“You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.” – Ice Cube
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“Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.” – Ice Cube
“There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to shower it.” – Ice Cube
“The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.” – 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
“If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.”
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“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.” – Ice Cube
“Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.” – Ice Cube
“I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.” – 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
“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
“With film, I have to be a team player; it’s a whole different thing. I can’t just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.” – Ice Cube
“I been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.”
– Ice Cube
“Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.” – Ice Cube
“Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.” – Ice Cube
“I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.” – 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
“I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.” – 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
“Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.”
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“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
“I really appreciate family. I really can’t imagine life without them!” – Ice Cube
“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 never get tired of ‘It Was A Good Day’ references or jokes or anything like that. It’s just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.” – Ice Cube
“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.” – Ice Cube
“I’ve done movies for certain reasons; I did ‘Anaconda’ because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn’t dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It’s like, ‘The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.’” – 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
