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Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall
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I wake up in the morning and ask myself is life worth living? Should I blast myself?
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Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)
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I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
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I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.
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I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.
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We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back
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I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.
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Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
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I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.
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I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, He's just adorable. He's just, oh!
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Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.
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I'll probably be punished for hard living.
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So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
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we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how
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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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So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.
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EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
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Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.
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