Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes

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

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• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • World
  • Meat

• I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dance

• Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Light
  • Path

• I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • History
  • Past
  • Myself

• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Everyday

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • You
  • Know
  • Something

• I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Great
  • Career

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Hate
  • Always

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Practice

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• I like to be supportive and a role model.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Like
  • Model
  • Role

• The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Family
  • May
  • Home

• Growing up, my parents always played artists like Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, so I just grew to love their music. And I just love so many diverse artists for different reasons; some for their instruments, some for their edge, some for their vocals.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Like

• I guess I don't really know any other way to do it, it just feels like the natural way to do things for me. Like - if I'm writing a song - it has to have some sort of value. Or it only has some kind of value to me, if it's something really personal. It has to mean something to me. I guess it is a little uncomfortable, or it's a little embarrassing sometimes, to know that stuff that honest is out there. But, when I hand off the thing, when it's totally done and mastered and sent, I kinda feel like it doesn't belong to me anymore.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Song

• It wasn't until I hung out with Dead Prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write "All Falls Down" in 15 minutes.

  

  Kanye West
  • Writing
  • Fall
  • Cool

• My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Grandfather
  • Then
  • Mining

• The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Impact
  • Creator
  • Mythology

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

  

  Ice Cube
  • Rap
  • Something
  • Just