Tupac Shakur Quotes
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Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either evolve or disappear.
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Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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Currency means nothing if you still ain't free. Money breeds jealousy. Take the game from me; I hope for better days. Trouble comes naturally. Running from authorities. 'Til they capture me, and my aim is to spread more smiles than tears. Utilize lessons learned from my childhood years.
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Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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I think being humble is sexy.
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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.
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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.
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Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it.
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On the whole, I don't have any friends. Friends come and go; I've lost my trust factor. I believe I have people who think they're my friend. And I believe that there are people probably in their heart who are friends toward me or are friends to me. But they're not my friends, because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love.
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Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
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My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.