Tupac Shakur Quotes on Resilience

22 quotes

  1. My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.

  2. Keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn.

  3. How can I show you how I feel inside/We outlawz motherfuckas can't kill my pride

  4. The power is in the people and politics we address/Always do your best, don't let the pressure make you panic

  5. I been hesitant to reappear, been away for years/Now I'm back my adversaries been reduced to tears

  6. Blast me but they didn't finish, (buck buck buck buck buck) didn't diminish my powers/so now I'm back to be a motherfuckin menace

  7. 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

  8. They got me goin mad, I'm knockin busters on they backs/in my cell, thinkin, 'Hell, I know one day I'll be back'

  9. It's like a ghetto we can never leave/A broken rose givin bloom to the cracks of the concrete

  10. So many other things for us to see/Things to be, our history so full of tragedy and misery

  11. In my chest I feel pain comin sudden storms/Life full of rain in this game watch for landstorms

  12. I once contemplated suicide, and woulda tried/But when I held that 9, all I could see was my momma's eyes

  13. Now its all about versace/You copied my style/Five shots couldn't drop me/I took it and smiled

  14. So will the real men get up/I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up

  15. It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity/It seems tha rain'll never let up

  16. I try to keep my head up, and still keep from gettin wet up/You know it's funny when it rains it pours

  17. And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but/please... you got to keep your head up

  18. Shatter, black talon style, thoughts I throw/It remains in your brain then of course it grows

  19. Lace me with words of destruction and I'll explode/but supply me with the will to survive, and watch the world grow

  20. And in case you don't know, ghetto born black seeds still grow/We comin back, for everything you owe

  21. I put my faith in God, blessed and still breathin/And even though it's hard, that's who I believe in/Before I'm leavin, I'm askin the grievin - who do you believe in?

  22. The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)

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