Tupac Shakur Quotes
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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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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You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
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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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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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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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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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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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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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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
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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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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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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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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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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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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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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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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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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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Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.
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I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.