Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

Drink some coffee, put some gangsta rap on, and handle it

Just wakin’ up in the morning gotta thank god.

The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people that stuck with me.

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

I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. I just want them to respect my opinion.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make ground-breaking hip-hop.

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

Never question the size of Ice Cube’s balls!

No matter how tough the hood is, it’s important to remember that we are stronger than our circumstances.

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

If you don’t wanna shake that hood mentality! How the f*** we suppose to change our reality?

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.

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

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.

Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know and he always wore his seat belt.

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.

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.

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

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.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

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.

If you don’t speak your mind, then nobody is going to know what you’re thinking.

The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about

The biggest change in the government’s behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community, that’s the biggest change. But without TV, the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, “If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball.” Everybody’s got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It’s not. It’s not.

Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, ‘You don’t have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin’ look like jerkin.

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.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.

Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren’t even fans.

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.

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.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

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

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.

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it doesn’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.

I’ve never really taken myself too serious. That’s everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I’ve always said what I’ve felt, said what I thought was right, but I’ve always had a comedic bone.

You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.

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

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

I like to deal with things I heard about, … People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That’s when the crime rate goes up.

It smell like you didn’t fall in no mud.

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.

When the 1st amendment doesn’t work, should we move to the next one America?

Everybody who wants to be successful should always be careful of what they 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.

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

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.

Stop expecting people to support your dreams. It’s yours.

They’re teenagers, man. They’re really stupid, so you should blend right in.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

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

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.

Real life, in my opinion, is preferable to fiction.

I keep the head of the anaconda from my 1997 movie Anaconda on a shelf.

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

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

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.

I don’t hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people. Like I hate racism, but I don’t hate the individual racists.

You know, growing up in the hood, you see things. You learn things. And you can either let it swallow you up, or you can rise above it.

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.

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.

We changed pop culture on all levels. Not just music. We changed it on TV. In movies. On radio. Everything.

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.

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you’re going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that’s the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.

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

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

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

People associate clothes with actual behavior… It’s not the clothes. It’s always the people.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.

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

For me, rappers and dancers are poets and artists and oftentimes the most interesting performances are given by them.

When I’m talking to him, I’m talking to him. When I say ‘shut the fuck up,’ I’m talking to you.

I’m not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

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

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.

You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I’ll burn your flag.

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

My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don’t mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don’t save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box.

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

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.

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.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

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

I think that my “Let’s get it done! Let’s have fun! Let’s make a great movie!” attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.

Sometimes when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin’ the movie whenever they see it. That’s what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

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

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.

My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online.

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

You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

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.

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

Speak a little truth and people lose they minds.

I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.

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.

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

I’ve done movies for certain reasons.

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

Just wakin’ up in the morning gotta thank god.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

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.

I really appreciate family, I really can’t imagine life without them.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Drink some coffee, put some gangsta rap on, and handle it.

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

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

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

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

Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The Beastie Boys broke all the walls for me. They were the introduction of rap is for everybody.

Speak a little truth and people lose they minds.

I don’t want to get rich and die trying.

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.

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

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

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.

The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.

I think you’ve got to be yourself, and you’ve got to be real and you’ve got to be honest.

It’s hard being black in America, but it’s even harder being a young black man.

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

It’s not just a black thing. When we came out, it was already a foregone conclusion that all types of life listen to rap. All cultures. But we never knew that.

You can do it, put your back into it.

You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it’s a movie that you would want to see.

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’.

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

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

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

I know kids cuss…I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.

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.

I can’t believe, today was a good day.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people that stuck with me.