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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
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My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.
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Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.
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America wants its respect.
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When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.
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I was raised in the city, shitty Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household, And drinking liquor til' you out cold
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Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.
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It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.
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Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.
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If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.
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Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.
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It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.
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If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.
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I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.
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When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.
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You either ride with us, or collide with us.
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
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The third always speaks the unspeakable words.
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I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.
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