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" The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny. "

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" My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. "

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" Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. "

" 'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible. "

" If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. "

" Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things. "

" I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week. "

" Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well. "

" Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out. "

" I'm on the front line and I am a rapper. "

" Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you. "

" We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's. "

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" I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. "

" Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group. "

" If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping. "

" I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?! "

" You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. "

" When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting. "

" Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. "

" I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street. "

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" I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. "

" Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. "

" I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace. "

" So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage. "