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" If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it. "

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" My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. "

" 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. "

" I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can. "

" My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.' "

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

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

" I have to grow with my audience. "

" 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. "

" An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party. "

" Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run. "

" If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis. "

" 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. "

" So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. "

" 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 want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums. "

" I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives. "

" The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. "

" Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you know, personally. But most of my real friends will call me Trey, or 'Ice' was basically short for Iceberg. So they would call me - some of my boys call me Berg. "

" When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers. "

" Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value. "

" I've never been competitive with anybody but myself. "

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

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

" You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. "

" 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. "

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

" As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real. "

" I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about. "

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

" Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. "