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Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was burnt. I got the Bronx Ministry to put him on the phone and proceeded to call him the unprincipled, arrogant idiot he was ... i hate arrogance whether it's white or purple or Black. Some people let power get to their heads ... the only great people i have met have been modest and humble. You can't claim that you love people when you don't respect them, and you can't call for political unity unless you practice it in your relationships. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Most of the class was Black or Puerto Rican and we all loved music. But we hated music class with a passion. The teacher talked to us as though we were inferior savages, incapable of appreciating the finer things in life. She lectured about symphonies and concertos and sonatas and the like in a snooty voice. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

If you don't know me, don't judge me. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

As far as I was concerned, the Panthers were 'baaaaaad.' The Party was more than bad; it was bodacious. The sheer audacity of walking onto the California Senate floor with rifles, demanding that Black people have the right to bear arms and the right to self-defense, made me sit back and take a long look at them. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren't planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government's genocidal war against Black and Third World people. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

In a hot second, the marshals and the FBI agents are crawling all over me. They seem to be trying to jerk my head off my shoulders. The judge has ordered that i am to be photographed, today, now, and that all the force necessary to take the pictures in the way the FBI wants to take them is to be used. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in its apartheid form, people could see the "whites only" signs. But it's much more difficult to see the structures of neo-imperialism, neo-colonialism, neo-slavery. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Though things change, the future's still inside of me. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

The only thing was that, once the $100,000 cash bail was raised, pig judge Murtagh refused to release him or any of the others. We were furious and helpless. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.
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Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good,
Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods.
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook,
Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke ... — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Michael Eric Dyson

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable. — Michael Eric Dyson

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Study your lessons, don't settle for less. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

The capper came when the manager of the bank came forward to testify in my behalf. He said that i was definitely not the woman who robbed the bank and that the robber was a different height and weight from mine. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

You either ride with us, or collide with us. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany? — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Only God can judge me. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I ain't racist but lets trade places. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

My energy just couldn't stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

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

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on ... gym. Physical Education. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

It's hard to care when no one loves you. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Only God can judge me now — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Don't live to fight, fight to live. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

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

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

For every single dark night there is a brighter day. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened ... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me,
He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

Records subpoenaed from the state Liquor Authority proved that the bar was owned by someone else, not by the witness who had testified to be the owner. The real owner testified that he had closed the bar before the alleged kidnapping, that he had visited it every day during the period of time it has hosted the "kidnapping," and had locked the door as he left and had given no one permission to use it. The bar had been closed for one year before the alleged crime. The irrefutable and obvious conclusion was that, in fact, there was no bar, no "scene" of the alleged crime, and, therefore, no crime. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

It's just me against the world. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

When i heard on the radio that the New York Panthers had been busted, i was furious. The so-called conspiracy charges were so stupid that even a fool could see through them. The police actually had the audacity to charge them with plotting to blow up the flowers in the Botanical Garden. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I found that people had all kinds of levels of consciousness, all kinds of levels of education, but that Cubans in general were very educated politically. I could go sit in a bus and get into a conversation with someone and that person had a wealth of knowledge. And energy! — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me
Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me? — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

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 can get cause everyone else is scared of me. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Forgive, but don't forget — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night ...
What of fame?
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone.. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Is it a crime to fight for what is mine? — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism, and also part of my curiosity as a person. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

They all jumped on me and started beating me. They had me on the floor - eventually my arms and legs were chained. They dragged me by the chains to PSA and stopped only when a nurse asked them to please stop. So they put me on a mattress and dragged the mattress. They took me to the observation room and left me, hands and feet cuffed. I had no sanitary napkins, no means to wash myself. The cuffs cut into my skin (the scars are still visible), and my wrists were bleeding. Later i found out that i had received an infraction for slapping an officer in the face while they were beating me. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

We're living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

I wondered how i would feel going into some museum and seeing the houses and stolen artifacts of my people stuck away in some exhibition hall. As i spoke i realized that most of the "history" i had been taught about the Indians was probably lies invented by the white man. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Assata Shakur

At the time, Alcatraz had been taken over by Native Americans who were protesting against a long series of broken treaties, genocidal policies, and racist exploitation. — Assata Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds. — Tupac Shakur

Shakur Quotes By Tupac Shakur

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else. — Tupac Shakur