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I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.
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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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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.
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Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.
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All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
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I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.
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My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.
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It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'
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Forgive, but don't forget
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Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
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If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.
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I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.
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Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party
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Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
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One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity.
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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.
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Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.
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I know death follows me, but I murder him first.
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Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X
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The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
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