Tupac Shakur: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 3)

“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

“Marlon Brando is not a gangster-actor, he's an actor. Axl Rose and them are not gangster rock-and-rollers, they're rock-and-rollers right. So I'm a rapper, this is what I do. I'm an artist.”

“But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man. When I was young I was quiet, withdrawn. I read a lot, wrote poetry, kept a diary. I watched TV all day. I stayed in front of the television. It was when I was in front of the TV by myself, being alone in the house by myself, having to cook dinner by myself, eat by myself. Just being by myself and looking at TV, at families and all these people out there in this pretend world. I knew I could be part of it if I pretended too, So early on I just watched and emulated … and I just thirsted for that. I thought if I could be and act like those characters, act like those people, I could have some of their joy. If I could act like I had a big family I wouldn't feel as lonely.”

“Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.”

“Fear is stronger than love.”

“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated”

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

“I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward”

“How could Reagan live in a White
House, which has a lot of rooms, and there be homelessness? And he's talking about helping. I don't believe that there is anyone that is going hungry in America simply by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them. It is by people not knowing where or how to get this help. Why can't he take people off the street and put them in his White House? Then he'll have people from the streets to help him with his ideas. Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless They haven't been homeless forever. They've done things in society. The White House would be tainted because he doesn't want to get dirty.”

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk
without having feet”

“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection”

“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.”

“i will live by the gun and die by the gun”

“I think being humble is sexy.”

“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.”

“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”

“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other”

“For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean”

“Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.”