Tupac Shakur quotes - page 7

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? (Tupac Shakur)
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. View quote
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America wants its respect. View quote
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I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. View quote
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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. View quote
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When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. View quote
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It's not just about you taking care of "your" child. It's about you taking care of these children. View quote
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To dance with the naked [blow-up] doll, that was me! That's what I mean by I'm real, I'm truly hardcore, because I needed the money and I had to work. So if he told me that for me to get paid I had to go out there in bikini briefs and hop on top of this [blow-up] doll and that's how I gotta get paid, and I was homeless at the time, that's what I had to do. But What I did was not let him pimp me, you know what I'm saying. It wasn't like I just did that because that was my order. As soon as I got the check's to say what was on my mind, I said what was on my mind. And we have a platinum record now, you know what I'm saying. View quote
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The main thing for us to remember is that, the same crime element that white people are scared of, black people are scared of. The same crime element that white people fear, black people fear. So we defend our self from the same crime element that they are scared of, you know what I'm saying, while they are waiting for legislations to pass and everything, we're next door to the killer, we're next door to him you know. Because we up in the projects where it's 80 niggas in the building. All them killers that they letting out, they're right there in that building. Just because we're black we get along with the killers or something? We get along with rapist's because we're black and from the same hood? What is that? We need protection too. (Tupac Shakur)
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. View quote
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If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me. View quote
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I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment. View quote
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You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either evolve or disappear. View quote
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. View quote
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It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda 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 gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE? View quote
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Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy. View quote
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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. View quote
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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. View quote
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I'll probably be punished for hard living. (Tupac Shakur)
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. View quote
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If it don't make dollars it don't make sense. View quote
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So I'm hopeless. Rollin' down the freeway swervin, don't worry,I'm about to crash up on the curb, 'cause my visions blurry. Maybe if they tried to understand me, what should I do?I had to feed my fuckin' family, what else could I do? But be a thug, out slangin' with the homies, fuck hangin' with them phonies in the clubs.Got my mind on danger, never been a stranger to homicide. My city's full of gang bangers and drive-bys, why do we die at an early age? He was so young, but still a victim of the 12 gauge,my memories of a corpse. View quote
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Real n*ggaz do what they wanna do, b*tch n*ggaz do what they can. View quote
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