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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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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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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America is the biggest gang in the world.
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You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.
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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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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
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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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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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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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Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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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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Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY.
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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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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.
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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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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.