Top 120 Ice Cube Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.”

— Ice Cube

52. “The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.”

— Ice Cube

53. “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

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

— Ice Cube

55. “South Central is just who I am.”

— Ice Cube

56. “Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.”

— Ice Cube

57. “It’s funny how people who ain’t never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It’s funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, ‘Get up. What’s wrong with you?’”

— Ice Cube

58. “I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.”

— Ice Cube

59. “When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.”

— Ice Cube

60. “My son, O’Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.”

— Ice Cube

61. “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

62. “I used to love to draw. I didn’t want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.”

— Ice Cube

63. “Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?”

— Ice Cube

64. “We’ll burn your store right down to a crisp.”

— Ice Cube

65. “Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.”

— Ice Cube

66. “I don’t get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I’m doing it the right way. You can’t do nothing but respect that.”

— Ice Cube

67. “We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.”

— Ice Cube

68. “Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.”

— Ice Cube

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

— Ice Cube

70. “My son Darrel could recite ‘Straight Outta Compton’ at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.”

— Ice Cube

71. “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

72. “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

73. “I’m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It’s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It’s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.”

— Ice Cube

74. “Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain’t going to accept nothing but a winner.”

— Ice Cube

75. “I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.”

— Ice Cube

76. “Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain’t eatin’.”

— Ice Cube

77. “If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.”

— Ice Cube

78. “I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.”

— Ice Cube

79. “I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.”

— Ice Cube

80. “I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?”

— Ice Cube

81. “You don’t have to be super clean to be a super star.”

— Ice Cube

82. “Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that’s crazy.”

— Ice Cube

83. “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

84. “I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.”

— Ice Cube

85. “To me, it’s my job not to laugh, no matter what’s said. By the time we shoot, I’m ready for all that’s coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can.”

— Ice Cube

86. “I usually don’t mind movies that people think go overboard because that’s what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves.”

— Ice Cube

87. “Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.”

— Ice Cube

88. “Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don’t nobody want to play with.”

— Ice Cube

89. “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

90. “I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.”

— Ice Cube

91. “I know I ain’t too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.”

— Ice Cube

92. “I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.”

— Ice Cube

93. “Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?”

— Ice Cube

94. “Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.”

— Ice Cube

95. “I’m not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I’m going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap.”

— Ice Cube

96. “I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn’t cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That’s how you get respect in Hollywood.”

— Ice Cube

97. “I’m a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.”

— Ice Cube

98. “I’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.”

— Ice Cube

99. “When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it’s something good, something worth checking out.”

— Ice Cube

100. “My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.’”

— Ice Cube