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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023

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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.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“It don't stop 'til the casket drop.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”

Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

“I ain't a killer, but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

"Hail Mary"
1990s, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)

“Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“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.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“How could Reagan live in a White
House, which has a lot of rooms, and there be homelessness? And he's talking about helping. I don't believe that there is anyone that is going hungry in America simply by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them. It is by people not knowing where or how to get this help. Why can't he take people off the street and put them in his White House? Then he'll have people from the streets to help him with his ideas. Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless They haven't been homeless forever. They've done things in society. The White House would be tainted because he doesn't want to get dirty.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Variant: You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either evolve or disappear.

“I think being humble is sexy.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

“But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man. When I was young I was quiet, withdrawn. I read a lot, wrote poetry, kept a diary. I watched TV all day. I stayed in front of the television. It was when I was in front of the TV by myself, being alone in the house by myself, having to cook dinner by myself, eat by myself. Just being by myself and looking at TV, at families and all these people out there in this pretend world. I knew I could be part of it if I pretended too, So early on I just watched and emulated … and I just thirsted for that. I thought if I could be and act like those characters, act like those people, I could have some of their joy. If I could act like I had a big family I wouldn't feel as lonely.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

“i will live by the gun and die by the gun”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet”

Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year, and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club, walking around, lonely. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Vibe magazine interview (February 1996)