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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.

Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
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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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My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.
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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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I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.
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And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.
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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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Take ones adversity Learn from their misfortune Learn from their pain Believe in something Believe in yourself Turn adversity into ambition Now blossom into wealth
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My only fear of death is reincarnation
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Even a genius has his questions.
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Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.
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I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.
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My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.
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If you don't know me, don't judge me.
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I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.
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That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
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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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People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
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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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June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.
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It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
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