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“What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

“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.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

“My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

“But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: "Yo, Shakespeare's dope."”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

“It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“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.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“Killing ain't fair, but somebody's got to do it.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, "Hit 'Em Up" (1996)

“The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“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.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

“Best Of 2Pac Vol 1:Thug and Vol 2:Life”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

2007
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“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

"Holla If Ya Hear Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/hollaifyahearme.html (1993). <br class="br">1990s

“Now if we do wanna live the thug life and the gangsta' life and all that, OK, so stop being cowards and let's have a revolution. But we don't wanna do that, dudes just wanna live "character", they wanna be "cartoons", but if they really wanted to do something, they was that tuff, alright, let's start our own country, let's start a revolution, let's get outta' here, let's do something. But they don't wanna do that, they wanna pimp our communities and portray this image that they know we all can't survive and make, and that's what I saw.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“It's not just about you taking care of "your" child. It's about you taking care of these children.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

“It's not going to stop until "we" stop it. And it's not just white man that's doing this to Brenda. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's "black."”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

“I have no patience for anybody that doubts me, none at all.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

“It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

“If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)