I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.


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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm st...
ICE T
As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
MR. T
I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's...
MR. T
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear w...
ICE T
Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems.
SAKTHIVEL T
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,'...
ICE T
You can think about killing yourself a thousand times a day and each time it gets just a little bit ...
T DOGMAN
The cost of electrons and photons is getting cheaper all the time!
T. GILLING
I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be...
PUSHA T
If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading...
MR. T
Boys do not long for fathers who will usher them through the gauntlet of psychological disconnect. T...
T. REAL
I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me...
T. MOUNTEBANK
My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends c...
ICE T
I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops...
ICE T
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T
That became the signature Ice-T style - rhymes that were "topical" and "vividly optical." To me it w...
ICE-T
Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fightin...
ICE-T
If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.
ICE-T
We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.

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T. GREENWOOD
I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things...
MR. T
I never understood why movies don't have to be as responsible, or the responsibility stops with ...
PUSHA T
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth...
MR. T
I think adidas really understands that it's cool to be in business with the right people. It rea...
PUSHA T
Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the commo...
T. KINGFISHER
Most of us will die twice; Once when we take our last breath, and again when the world forgets your ...
T. ARCHMAN
I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want i...
ICE T
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
ICE T
I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
ICE T
For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D
Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D
We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D
When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D
We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D
We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D
L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D
Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D
Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D
I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D
I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D
In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D
That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D
We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D