22 Tupac Shakur Quotes on Resilience

Tupac Shakur quotes on resilience

20. 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.

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

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

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

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

128. 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

169. 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

194. 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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

343. 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?

415. The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)