Tupac Shakur quote: "It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?""

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority tha...
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I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly c...
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I'll probably be punished for hard living.
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I'm a reflection of the community.
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In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
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I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted?...
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Let the Lord judge the criminals.
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The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
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Thug Life to me is dead.
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It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
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Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
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We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
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All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle th...
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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me ...
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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is ...
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I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm goin...
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Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it ...
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You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put ...
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Expect me nigga like you'd expect jesus to come back expect me nigga im coming.
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I' ve been shot five times but im still breathing living proof there a god if you need a reason.
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only god can judge me
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He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe b...
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Right now, it is it is almost.. it is almost uhh, IMPOSSIBLE for you not to see how strong rap has g...
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Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night...What of fame?Everyone knows your face, the world s...
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Let me show you, the rhyme..Excuse me - but, Lady Liberty needs glassesand so does Mrs. Justice by h...
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Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes
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Can you picture my prophecy?
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GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except...
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Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothin...
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There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople bill...
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When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
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I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody&#...
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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had tha...
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
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Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
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It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
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The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
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I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
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My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find ...
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I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright da...
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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 go...
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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next m...
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Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wa...
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If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
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I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or...
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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just loo...
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You know it's funny when it rains it pours
They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.
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The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams.
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The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried ...
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I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they dont w...
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Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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If you walked by a street and as you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete...
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With all my fans I got a family again.
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Picture me rolling.
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Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.
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For every dark night, there's a brighter day
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So complicated to escape fate. And you can never understand til' we trade places
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I didn’t get that power from guns because there’s no guns in jail. I got that power from books a...
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Sombody wake me I'm dreaming
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I don't understand how people can
stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They'r...
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For every dark night, there's a brighter day.
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Back in elementary I thrived on misery/ left me alone/ I grew up amongs a dying breed... I'm barely ...
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And they wonder why we suicidal runnin round strapped.
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Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.
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I'm barely standin, bout to go pieces screaming PEACE!
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sometimes i sit and look at life from a different angle.
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NeverIgnorantGetsGoalsAcomplished.
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I'll probably be punished for hard living.
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Have you ever stopped to think? We're old enough to go to war...but we ain't old enough to drink.
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In my mind I'm a blind man doin time.
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Same Sh*t Different Generation.
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People say sh*t, true niggaz don't live by those people. Neither do the people who say sh*t.
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I make sure everybody die , when we ride on your enemies.
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You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the w...
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Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight
Why am I trying to see, when there aint n...
TUPAC SHAKUR

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle
I make mistakes but learn from every one
...
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Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this ...
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Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.
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we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would ...
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Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.
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I heard a rumor I diedMurdered in cold blood dramatizedPictures of me in my final stateYou know mama...
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If we're all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you ...
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Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
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No Man Alive has witness struggles i survived
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Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it
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There's gonna be some stuff you gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but thro...
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Even a genius has his questions.
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We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as ...
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
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When will there be peace on earth?When the earth has fallen to pieces.
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I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?
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My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated
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Why am I Dying to Live, When I'm just Living to Die, Why am I Trying to see when there ain't nothing...
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In the event of my demisewhen my heart can beat no moreI hope I die for a principleor a belief that ...
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During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm...
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There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there ar...
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Must my guns Make em all Scatter,Bullets to my nuts only made my balls fatter.
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Live by the gun die by the gun.
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I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me I don't want it if it's that easy.
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since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w...
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We all gonna die , we bleed from similar veins.
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I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New...
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I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm...
TUPAC SHAKUR

Of course i'm going to say "i'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and i'm still HERE!
TUPAC SHAKUR

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottleI make mistakes but learn from every oneAnd when i...
TUPAC SHAKUR

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day...
TUPAC SHAKUR

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.
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How many caskets can we witnessBefore we see it's hard to liveThis life without God, so we must ask ...
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Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.
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Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
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I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward
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If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
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EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'M A SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH."
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To all the seeds that follow meprotect your essenceBorn with less, but you still precious.
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My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to...
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I thought i had friends but in the end niggaz dies lonely.
TUPAC SHAKUR

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my lif...
TUPAC SHAKUR

theres gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but throug...
TUPAC SHAKUR

A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.
TUPAC SHAKUR

Why am I fighting to live,
If I am just living to fight
Why am I trying to see.
Whe...
TUPAC SHAKUR

Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy
TUPAC SHAKUR

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or ...
TUPAC SHAKUR

If I had an ear 2 confide in
I would cry among my treasured friends
But who do u know that...
TUPAC SHAKUR

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will cha...
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Only God can judge me.
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My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lor...
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Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common...
TUPAC SHAKUR

Sometimes when I'm alone
I Cry,
Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and...
TUPAC SHAKUR

If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If yo...
TUPAC SHAKUR

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
TUPAC SHAKUR

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Nev...
TUPAC SHAKUR

Only God Can Judge Me
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why ev...
TUPAC SHAKUR

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.
TUPAC SHAKUR

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.
TUPAC SHAKUR

The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
AFENI SHAKUR

My son used to talk about young black men going to prison all the time in his music,
AFENI SHAKUR

This statue will serve as a reminder to all those who visit the Peace Garden of the love and hope fo...
AFENI SHAKUR

This statue will serve as a reminder to all of those who visit the Peace Garden of Love and Hope, fo...
AFENI SHAKUR

This statue will serve as a reminder to all those who visit the Peace Garden of the love and hope fo...
AFENI SHAKUR

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolu...
ASSATA SHAKUR

In a game like this, every second counts. Every possession counts. That's the biggest thing you can ...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

It's tough to beat anybody three times in a season. It's not going to be an easy game.
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

It was a team win because, no matter how many points somebody scored, we played like a team. There w...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

If it's Carolina, it's always been one of the powers, especially with (Michael) Jordan and James Wor...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

Hassan is a great teammate, a great person. He's somebody who's always (behind you) and is there for...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

Two or three hours later, guys were laughing and joking like nothing happened. I just wanted to get ...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books ...
ASSATA SHAKUR

We had three pros in the last two years and I had a role to play, ... It was frustrating to be in th...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

We have to play our brand of basketball, no matter what they are going to do. They will slow it down...
MUSTAFA SHAKUR

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?"

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