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Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
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“Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. VI.
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