Ice Cube Quotes

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

We need to offer great examples to our youth.

When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.

Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.

You've got a bunch of kids out here that might not want to be athletes, but they want to learn how to make a difference in their community, and I'm trying to as best I can show an example of that.

With gangs, there could be a positive outlook because it takes the older guys to come school these younger guys on the right roles.

I want to be looked at as a positive role model and a person who supports the community. I want to help the kids who are in need and need a role model to look up to to show them the way.

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

I think we need to do as much as we can to give back to these young kids growing up. I think we've done a pretty decent job so far.

I love working with young people which to me is a big kick.

When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.

How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Young people need models, not critics.

I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.

Children have more need of models than of critics.