Top 120 Ice Cube Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If the day did not require an AK then it was good.”

— Ice Cube

2. “I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.”

— Ice Cube

3. “Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.”

— Ice Cube

4. “My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one.”

— Ice Cube

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5. “For my birthday, buy me a politician!”

— Ice Cube

6. “Check yo self befo you wreck yo self.”

— Ice Cube

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

— Ice Cube

8. “I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.”

— Ice Cube

9. “Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day.”

— Ice Cube

10. “The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.”

— Ice Cube

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

— Ice Cube

12. “Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK, cops gotta get pealed.”

— Ice Cube

13. “I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.”

— Ice Cube

14. “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

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

— Ice Cube

16. “Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.”

— Ice Cube

17. “Never question the size of Ice Cube’s balls!”

— Ice Cube

18. “If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.”

— Ice Cube

19. “Rap is always evolving. It’s easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it’s a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.”

— Ice Cube

20. “I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don’t head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.”

— Ice Cube

21. “What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out.”

— Ice Cube

22. “Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.”

— Ice Cube

23. “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

24. “To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.”

— Ice Cube

25. “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

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

— Ice Cube

27. “I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.”

— Ice Cube

28. “Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.”

— Ice Cube

29. “My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it ‘Datsun’ – now it’s ‘Nissan.’ Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it but it was my transportation.”

— Ice Cube

30. “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

31. “I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.”

— Ice Cube

32. “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

33. “Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”

— Ice Cube

34. “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.”

— Ice Cube

35. “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

36. “There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie.”

— Ice Cube

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37. “Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game.”

— Ice Cube

38. “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

39. “Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up.”

— Ice Cube

40. “A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.”

— Ice Cube

41. “You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.”

— Ice Cube

42. “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

43. “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

44. “I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.”

— Ice Cube

45. “I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.”

— Ice Cube

46. “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

47. “I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.”

— Ice Cube

48. “The best thing I’ve done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.”

— Ice Cube

49. “I really appreciate family. I really can’t imagine life without them!”

— Ice Cube

50. “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