Top 100 Tupac Shakur Quotes
#1. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
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#2. And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
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#3. 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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#4. I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.
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#5. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
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#6. Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.
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#7. 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.
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#8. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
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#9. If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.
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#11. I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.
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#12. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
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#13. Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.
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#14. Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL
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#15. Only God Can Judge Me
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my
life
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#16. I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.
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#17. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
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#18. Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.
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#19. And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.
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#21. Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.
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#22. 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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#23. God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
We try to cry, but still they all die,
I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.
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#24. People die and people cry people want me dead.
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#25. All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.
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#26. Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.
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#27. Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.
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#28. Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.
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#29. As long as some suffer
The River Flows Forever
As long as there is pain
The River Flows Forever
As strong as a smile can be
The River will Flow Forever
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#31. That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.
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#32. First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.
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#33. When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.
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#34. You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened ... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.
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#35. If I was white I would have been like John Wayne ... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play
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#36. How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.
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#37. 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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#38. If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.
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#39. No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.
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#40. I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.
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#42. When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time
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#43. I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.
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#44. They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.
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#46. Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
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#47. If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
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#48. Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me
Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?
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#49. Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies
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#50. Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.
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#51. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
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#52. And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.
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#53. No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.
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#55. Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.
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#57. I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.
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#59. If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
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#60. Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.
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#61. I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
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#62. I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.
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#63. Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.
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#64. All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
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#65. The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay
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#66. Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.
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#67. Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.
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#68. 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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#69. You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.
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#70. Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots
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#71. The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.
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#72. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.
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#73. 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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#74. I was raised in the city, shitty
Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty
Drinkin' liquor out my momma's titty
And smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,
And drinking liquor til' you out cold
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#75. I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.
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#76. My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.
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#77. I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds.
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#78. I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.
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#79. Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.
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#80. I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.
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#81. They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
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#82. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.
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#83. I'm down for you, so ride with me.
My enemies your enemies,
Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.
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#84. I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.
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#85. It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.
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#86. Play the game, never let the game play you.
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#87. I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up ... and handle it.
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#88. And I ... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.
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#89. They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.
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#90. There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
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#92. Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place
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#93. I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul
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#94. The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.
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#95. Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!
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#96. where my culture I'm told holds no significance
I'll wither and die in ignorance
But my inner eye can c a race
who reigned as kings in another place
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#97. Study your lessons, don't settle for less.
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#98. So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.
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#99. If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.
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#100. Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.
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