Tupac

• TuPac Shakur

• "You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either grow or disappear."
• "Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."
• "When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver."
• "I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."
• "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
• "During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams."
• "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."
• I kiss my Mama goodbye, and wipe the tears from her lonely eyes/Said I'll return but I gotta fight the fate's arrived/Don't shed a tear, cause Mama I ain't happy here/I'm through trial, no more smiles, for a couple years (I Ain't Mad Atcha)
• To all my homies never made it home/The dead peers I shed tattoo tears for, when I'm alone
• So many other things for us to see/Things to be, our history so full of tragedy and misery
• Just think of all the people that you knew in the past/that passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last
• Picture a place that they exist, together/There has to be a place better than this, in heaven/So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin/Remember this face, save me a place, in thug's mansion
• Mo' nigga mo' nigga mo' niggaz/I'd rather be dead than a po' nigga/Let the Lord judge the criminals/If I die, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
• Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is/it ain't no hope for tha future
• And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but/please... you got to keep your head up
• It's a small thang through and true/What could I do? Real homies help ya get through,
• Supreme ideology, you claim to hold/Claimin that we all drug dealers with empty souls
• But we must have hope, quotin the reverand from the pulpit/Refuse to turn the other cheek we must defeat the evil culprit
• Lace me with words of destruction and I'll explode/but supply me with the will to survive, and watch the world grow
• I'm seein nuttin but my dreams comin true/While I'm starin at the world through my rearview
• It's just another murder, nobody mourns no more/My tear drops gettin bigger but can't figure what I'm cryin for
• I hate the man in the mirror/Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer
• And all the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain I feel inside/You know, it's like I'm livin just to die
• Am I cold or is it just I sold my soul?/Addicted to these streets, never find true peace I'm told
• In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.
• My Mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
• We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.
• I'm not saying I'm gonna rule the world but if I keep talking about how dirty it is, someone will have to clean it up.
• T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E stands for The Hate U Give Lil Infants Fucks Everybody
• N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished
• During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
• The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil.
• I see no changes. Wake up in the morning and I ask myself/"Is life worth living? Should I blast myself?"
• I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black/My stomach hurts, so I'm lookin' for a purse to snatch
• It's time to fight back, that's what Huey said, 2 shots in the dark, now Huey's dead.
• I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere/unless we share with each other
• We gotta start makin' changes/learn to see me as a brother instead of 2 distant strangers/and that's how it's supposed to be/How can another take a brother if he's close to me?
• I see no changes all I see is racist faces/misplaced hate makes disgrace to races
• We gotta make a change. It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.
• Be grateful for blessings/Don't ever change, keep your essence
• There was no mercy on the streets, I couldn't rest/I'm barely standin, bout to go to pieces, screamin peace
• I'm fallin to the floor; beggin for the Lord to let me in/to Heaven's door
• Ya just workin with the scraps you was given/And mama made miracles every Thanksgivin
• And all my childhood memories/Are full of all the sweet things you did for me/And even though I act craaazy/I gotta thank the Lord that you made me
• There are no words that can express how I feel/You never kept a secret, always stayed real/And I appreciate, how you raised me/And all the extra love that you gave me
• Look to my future cause my past, is all behind me/Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?/Everybody's dyin tell me what's the use of tryin
• I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, cause I'm cursed/And fantasies of my family, in a hearse
• And they say it's the white man I should fear/But, it's my own kind doin all the killin here
• Oh my Lord, tell me what I'm livin for/Everybody's droppin got me knockin on heaven's door
• And all my memories, of seein brothers bleed/And everybody grieves, but still nobody sees
• Father forgive us for livin while all my homies stuck in prison/Barely breathin believin that the world is a prison
• It's like a ghetto we can never leave/A broken rose givin bloom to the cracks of the concrete
• So many other things for us to see/Things to be, our history so full of tragedy and misery
• It's not going to stop until we stop it. And it's not just white man that's brain-dead. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's black. And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
• What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
• It's not just about you taking care of your child. It's about you taking care of these children.Some people say I was a thug and a gangsta. Other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
• 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."
• 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.
• Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
• Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
• Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.
• You grow, we all grow, we're made to grow. You either grow or disappear.
• Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.
• You have to be logical. You know? If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day, and I'm knocking on the door every day to eat, and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami all over, I mean, just throwing food around, but they're telling me there's no food. Every day, I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, it's like: Give me the food Or I'm breaking down the door. After a year you're just like: I'm picking the lock Coming through the door blasting; It's like, you hungry, you reached your level. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, the Civil Rights Movement. We was asking. Those people that asked are dead and in jail. So now what do you think we're gonna do? Ask?