Ice Cube Quotes

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I was probably the only revolutionary ever referred to as "cute.

When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said on the Internet.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why I thought of Guy Fawkes, because it was during the summer. I thought that would be great if he looked like Guy Fawkes, kind of theatrical.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

We are revolutionaries.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.