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People Quotes by Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur describes thug life as a mirror of America, where fear and danger are everywhere. He talks about being shot, set up by trusted people, and how that shapes his view of responsibility. He feels he has more duties than most, even if he doesn’t see himself as special.

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People die and people cry people want me dead.

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Love IS the People's Power

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

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In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

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Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

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Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

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People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

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There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There…

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I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people…

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I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to…

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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? That's bad.

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Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood.…

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Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better…

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No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to…

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I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my…

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The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up…

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Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your…

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I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me…

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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,…

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I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me…Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money…Like Makaveli, every…

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A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They…

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We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We…

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I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I…

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There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving.…

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Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's…

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There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and…

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I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I…

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With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finaly get to…

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You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced…

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Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell…

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The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the…

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Be grateful for blessings, Don't ever change, keep your essence. The power is in the people and politics we address.

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I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already…

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I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why…

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Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised…

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I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to…

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You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we…

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Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your…

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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…

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When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You…

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This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge…

I' ve been shot five times but I'm still breathing living proof there a god if you need a reason.

I wanna take your misery, replace it with happiness but I need your faith in me.

I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared,…

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

Everything bad you do comes back around to you.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I…

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…

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women…

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write…

This time the truth's gettin told, heard enough lies.

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.