Many people wonder what is the true nature of politics but most don't really understand that politics is every where from the class setting to the local grocery store. Therefore with politics impacting every component of our lives, this will hopefully help others become more aware of the issues that are important to the political arena and in turn start a chain reaction of more citizens becoming involved in the political process on all levels.
We are sons and daughters! We are mothers and fathers! We are brothers and sisters! All bonded to serve our nation! We are courageous! We are strong! We are selfless! All bonded with a mission to protect our country from harms way! We work 24 hours a day! We work 7 days a week! We work 12 months out the year! All bonded 365 days to build a better America! We fight on land! We fight through the sea! We fight in the air! All bonded on Earth to fight for the great old USofA! We are America's troops! We are our nation's line of defense! We are patriots and heroes to some! All bonded by our faith to service and loyalty to country! We are the Army! We are the Air Force! We are the Marines! We are the Navy! All bounded to form America's Armed Forces! We sacrifice our lives! We miss out on birthdays! We sometimes miss child births and funerals! All bounded as troops that become a battle family to lean on forever! We are the troops so honor us don't forget about us! We are the troops so love us don't hurt us! We are the troops so support us don't dismiss us! We are the troops so take care of us as we protect everyone's rights and freedoms both abroad & at home.
LYRICS : [Chorus: Cee-lo] Now that all the smoke is gone (Lighter) And the battle's finally won (Gimme a lighter) Victory (Lighters up) is finally ours (Lighters up) History, so long, so long So long, so long
[Verse 1: Jay-Z] In search of victory, she keeps eluding me If only we could be together momentarily We can make love and make history Why won't you visit me? until she visit me I'll be stuck with her sister, her name is defeat She gives me agony, so much agony She brings me so much pain, so much misery Like missing your last shot and falling to your knees As the crowd screams for the other team I practice so hard for this moment, victory don't leave I know what this means, I'm stuck in this routine Whole new different day, same old thing All I got is dreams, nobody else can see Nobody else believes, nobody else but me Where are you victory? I need you desperately Not just for the moment, to make history
[Chorus: Cee-lo] Now that all the smoke is gone (Lighters) And the battle's finally won (Lighters) Victory is finally ours (Yeah) History (yeah), so long, so long So long, so long
[Verse 2: Jay-Z] So now I'm flirting with death, hustling like a G While victory wasn't watching took chances repeatedly As a teenage boy before acne, before I got proactiv I couldn't face she I just threw on my hoodie and headed to the street That's where I met success, we'd live together shortly Now success is like lust, she's good to the touch She's good for the moment but she's never enough Everybody's had her, she's nothing like V But success is all I got unfortunately But I'm burning down the block hoppin' in and out of V But something tells me that there's much more to see Before I get killed because I can't get robbed So before me success and death ménage I gotta get lost, I gotta find V We gotta be together to make history
[Chorus: Cee-lo] Now that all the smoke is gone (Lighters. Up.) And the battle's finally won (Lighter. Up.) Victory is finally ours (Lighters. Up.) History, so long, so long So long, so long
[Verse 3: Jay-Z] Now victory is mine, it tastes so sweet She's my trophy wife, you're coming with me We'll have a baby who stutters repeatedly We'll name him history, he'll repeat after me He's my legacy, son of my hard work Future of my past, he'll explain who I be Rank me amongst the greats, either 1, 2, or 3 If I ain't number one then I failed you victory Ain't in it for the fame that dies within weeks Ain't in it for the money, can't take it when you leave I wanna be remembered long after you grieve Long after I'm gone, long after I breathe I leave all I am in the hands of history That's my last will and testimony This is much more than a song, it's a baby shower I've been waiting for this hour, history you ours
[Chorus: Cee-lo (2x)] Now that all the smoke is gone And the battle's finally won Victory is finally ours History, so long, so long So long, so long
Man in the Mirror--By Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson - Man in the mirror
I'm gonna make a change, for once im my life It's gonna feel real good, gonna make a diference Gonna make it right...
As I, turn up the collar on my favorite winter coat This wind is blowing my mind I see the kids in the streets, with not enought to eat Who am I to be blind? Pretending not to see their needs
A summer disregard,a broken bottle top And a one man soul They follow each other on the wind ya' know 'Cause they got nowhere to go That's why I want you to know
I'm starting with the man in the mirror I'm asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place (If you wanna make the world a better place) Take a look at yourself, and then make a change (Take a look at yourself, and then make a change) (Na na na, na na na, na na, na nah)
I've been a victim of a selfish kind of love It's time that I realize That there are some with no home, not a nickel to loan Could it be really me, pretending that they're not alone?
A willow deeply scarred, somebody's broken heart And a washed-out dream (Washed-out dream) They follow the pattern of the wind ya' see 'Cause they got no place to be That's why I'm starting with me (Starting with me!)
I'm starting with the man in the mirror (Ooh!) I'm asking him to change his ways (Ooh!) And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place (If you wanna make the world a better place) Take a look at yourself, and then make a change (Take a look at yourself, and then make a change)
I'm starting with the man in the mirror (Ooh!) I'm asking him to change his ways (Change his ways - ooh!) And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make that.. (Take a look at yourself and then make that..) CHANGE!
I'm starting with the man in the mirror (Man in the mirror - Oh yeah!) I'm asking him to change his ways (Better change!) No message could have been any clearer (If you wanna make the world a better place)
Michael Jackson - Man in the mirror
A Change is Gonna Come by Sam Cook
It's been a long time coming but a change is surely going to come in America and the World! I am the Future of America and the World and that is the message that each of us must carry with us each and every day that we wake up on Earth! I am the Future! You are the Future! We are the Future of America and the World! That is way every election is important--primaries, special elections and general! So vote every year and hold our politicians accountable. Hold our political officials accountable by writing them, calling them and making sure they attend meetings that we the people have."The Time for Change is not Now but Right Now!"
"EmPOWERment By Any Means Necessary"should be our anthem and should be our creed as we make the positive differences in America and the world that so many people beg for and hungry for year after year! A Change is Gonna Come, A Change is Gonna Come, that's what we must say as we say"God grants us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, Courge to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference" each morning before we go about the task of making a positive change in America and the world a reality.
Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
“When will people realize that we are Americans first and foremost, not Democrats or Liberals, not Republicans or Conservatives, not Independents or moderates. We are Americans. Stop putting a political party above America and stop putting any politican above America. America succeeds because of us the people holding our government responsible no matter the political party because the main two political parties are to blame for the condition America is in."—Hodari P.T. Brown
America with its flaws and all is a country I am proud to have been born in. America is not perfect but my love for it is perfect. That’s why all Americans must realize that we are all Americans. In fact we are Americans first and foremost. We are not Democrats or Republicans. We are Americans.
We are not Muslims, Christians or Jews. We are Americans. Too many times we recognize our differences with others rather than appreciating our similarities which are, we are Americans. We are Americans first and foremost, no matter if we were born here or moved here legally. We are all Americans, here in this country to make not only our lives better but the lives of other Americans better so future Americans can enjoy the rights and freedoms that make us all Americans.
We are all Americans. We are one party united under God. We are Americans and this is the only political party that matters. We are Americans and this is our country so let’s make sure that we make America better than how we found it so future Americans can live prosperous and joyous lives. We are Americans and must not ever forget that.
America will prosper as long we make sure we are doing our part to make it prosper and that means we can’t put any political party or politician above America. Long live America forever and long live America’s service to the world. Together, America and the world will prosper for future generations to enjoy America and the world we live in.
Lift Every Voice and Sing
This video of the ' Negro National Anthem' was originally screened at the historic African-American Church Inaugural Ball in Washington, DC on January 18th, 2009. Many of the esteemed individuals featured in this video in attendance and we presented with the ' Keepers of the Flame' award for the monumental contributions to social justice.
This version of the song was performed by the Grace Baptist Church Cathedral Choir, conducted by Derrick James. The video was produced and donated by Ascender Communications, LLC (www.ascender-c.com) at the request of The Balm In Gilead, Inc.
If I Was President--Wyclef Jean
If I was President that is the people's anthem. We all have ideas of what we can do as President and through this website, we will fulfill our deam as a people!
Somethings Gotta Give--Big Boi ft Mary J Blige
Somethings Gotta Give people and it begins today for all us to make sure that something is us. We the people are sick and tired of suffering. Where is our piece of the Dream that so many people dead for so that we all could see today. This is our time people to change America and the world so that the Next Generation has a better future than the past we inherited. This is our call to service. This isn't about one political candidate or one political figure. This is about us as people coming together to finally leave up to our potential and achieving the great feats that those before us have achieved. This is our moment to lead our nation and our world to greater heights. Somethings gotta give people and it starts with us the people making it happen. We have to improve our education system in America. We have to rid the world of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We have to go to the streets and lift a hand to another in order to decrease poverty in this world. We have to take a stand today and make sure that the future of America and the world is brighter than it has ever been.
Somethings Gotta Give and that is why we must"Remember Each One, Reach One and Teach One so America's future and the World's future continues to prosper."
John Legend - "If You're Out There"
If you're out there than you need to get started in helping to change America and the world. The world and America won't change until you get involved in making the changes you want to see in this world. If you're out there, than you must know that tomorrow started now and today started yesterday so you are behind in helping to the change. If you are tired of hatred, racism, poverty, war, and violence than the time to change it is now. If you want universal health care, world peace, democracy for every nation, equal rights, and happiness for all than you must get involved now to help the save world. You must believe in the change that you want to see and you must act on making that change a reality. If you're out there than say it aloud and show the rest of America and the world that you're out here to make a real positive change in the communities we stay in. If you're out there than get involved now. I'm calling every women and men to join me as we take back our country right here, right now. If you're out there than the future started yersterday and we are already late so we have lots of work to do but I know we can do it together as one.
YES WE CAN
Yes We Can accomplish anything that we set out to do! We don't need charismatic or inspirational leaders to believe in ourselves and to take responsiblity for our own faith, we just need each other. Yes We Can build a new America and a new world if each of us would take action now to make the changes that we want to see in the world. Yes We Can control government by holding our political officials accountable for their actions by calling them out when they don't pass legislation that supports the common good of all man and by voting in every election to ensure that we have people representing the people locally, state wide, nationally and in the world.
Yes We Can be great! Yes We Can be what we want to be! Yes We Can be glorious in not only America but the world! Yes We can put action behind our worlds and change the world starting right here, right now! Yes We Can as Republicans, Democrats and Independents become one as we freely think about our fellow men and women and make decisions that will be in the best interest of all people and not one single group.
Yes We Can be the change that we want to see in the world! Yes We Can show the world that the youth are ready to lead! Yes We Can put our egos, our social economic statuses, our religions, our educational statuses and our skin color to the side for the better good of the world! Yes We Can be Greater than we have ever been and help others be Greater than they have ever be!
YES WE CAN and YES WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN ALL THAT WE DO! YES WE CAN, no matter what others may say, we will be glorious! YES WE WILL and YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!
YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN is what will be sung from every mountaintop, every riverbank, every household, every school yard, every factory, every sporting event, every college campus and even every place you can imagine in the world is where YES WE CAN, will be said and heard!
YES WE CAN!
Keep On Pushing - Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions
Wake Up People! No matter who is elected to any public office, we have to “Keep On Pushing” as a people to make sure they don’t leave us in a worst state than what they inherited. We as a people have to “Keep On Pushing” to make a difference in the lives of others. We have to have an “EmPOWERment By Any Means Necessary” attitude as we continue to push our agenda that we the people deserve and want better. We have to “Keep On Pushing” to bring about change in a positive way that will benefit all Americans no matter their age, their religion or skin color. We have to “Keep On Pushing” to bring about change that will improve our education system, improve our military, improve our national security, improve our healthcare system and improve our economy. We have to “Keep On Pushing” to bring about change that will leave America’s future in a better than how we found it and that will leave the world’s future in a better state than we imagined we could live it. We have to “Keep On Pushing” to make life better for our neighborhoods, our families and even our quote on quote enemies. We have to “Keep On Pushing” to inspire, to uplift and to guide those who need help spiritually, physically and mentally. We have to “Keep On Pushing ” so that our lives, our future generation’s lives and the lives of those who came before us does not die in vein.
The moment has come for us as a nation of people to finally wake up and realize that our destiny and fate in society has rests on our shoulders. We cannot allow the forces of evil and darkness to drain us out. We have to continue to overcome all odds in order to make the future of our nation better and the future of future generations of Americans better. We have to continue to pray to our Lord and we have to continue to uplift each other in prayer as well as take action against those things that are trying to destroy us. We have to stand up once and for all and be the future that we want to be. Now is our time and we shall do together by any means necessary.
This video was created to inspire young African-Americans not to fall prey to some of the problems they face in society. The use of the voice "Master of Darkness" represents evil, which is where the blame of all problems should be placed, and not on any one group of people. This video should not to be used to divide people (Black & White), there are images of heroes that are white in this video, and there are images of Black & White coming together with the words of Dr. King in the background. Some of the images from the past can be unsettling, but they are used to show all Americans how far we have come, and how far we still have to go. This film is being strategically placed in school systems, churches and youth orgs around the country, in hope of helping a lost generation of kids that we as Americans have forgotten. As fellow Americans we must continue to love each other, and take that love and spread it to the rest of the world. **THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR SALE & I AM NOT ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR THE FILM, I ONLY WANT THE MESSAGE TO REACH AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT ANY HIDDEN POLITICAL OR FINANCIAL AGENDA.
Sitting On the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
"The time for sitting is over! The time for action is now! The time for hope without action is hopeless! The time for change without a positive attitude is a change that we can't believe in! We need change that is positive of helping all people! Our time for action is now, our time for hope is now, our time for change is now and our time to believe that we can do whatever we set our minds to is not now but right now!"
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TheStar-SpangledBannerbyFrancisScottKey
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream; 'Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land, Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just. And this be our motto— "In God is our trust; " And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Black President
Our Time is not now but Right Now! Our Time has finally come to change the world not now but Right Now! If you don't believe that we can change the world than watch as we do it by changing your mind into believing in us and what we can do! This is OUR TIME RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
FIGHT THE POWER
We got to FIGHT THE POWER! We can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch injustices take place. We can no longer sit by and allow our right to vote to become unexercised. We must FIGHT THE POWER for our past, present and future! We can no longer allow our rights to be oppressed and our voice to become drained by the powers at be. We must FIGHT THE POWER and show that we have a lot to say that needs to be heard by the mainstream media. We must FIGHT THE POWER and live up to our potential as dynamic, unbelievable and phenomenal people.
We must not believe the hype but we must become the hype. We are not Harriett Tubman, Marcus Garvey, MLK, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. DuBois, the Black Panther Party, SNCC, or any other activists but we are the fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, uncles, aunties, and relatives of those who came before us to pave the way for us to FIGHT THE POWER! We are not next Generation of leaders who will not be honored and praised until they die but that’s the fight we accept. We are not fighting the power for glory or fame but we are fighting the power for just causes that most men and women will not understand until years or decades later.
We are fighting for our sisters and brothers in Darfur, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, China and Mexico. We are speaking for those who are poor and have no food or water. We are fighting for those who are sick and dying. We are fighting for universal healthcare across the world and human rights for all people. We are fighting for rich and poor! We must FIGHT THE POWER no matter how hard and tough the road may be. We must FIGHT THE POWER for a better today and an even greater tomorrow!
FIGHT THE POWER!
PEOPLE GET READY
“People Get Ready” our time is coming! We have come too far to turn back now. Our train is coming and it is coming in waves. “People Get Ready”, we don’t need a ticket but we need faith and the Lord will help guide us as we take back America and the world. “People Get Ready” our moment is now and we are ready to see the change we want in America and the world. All we got to do is have faith, hope and prosperity. “People Get Ready” to face your fears. “People Get Ready” to face your demons and the challenges of yesterday because today and tomorrow we will conquer & be victorious. “People Get Ready” a change is coming and our actions will make sure that change is a real positive change that lasts forever.
“People Get Ready” because we have had enough of just talking but now is our time to show action. “People Get Ready” to take back America and the world. “People Get Ready” to take back our communities and to make our streets safer and schools better. “People Get Ready” to make all our dreams come true. “People Get Ready” to see a better present for everyone and a better future for future generations. “People Get Ready” to live up to your potential and to help others live up to their own potential. “People Get Ready” to move past hatred, bigotry, racism and sexism. “People Get Ready” to fulfill the dreams of those who came before us and those who will come after us.
“People Get Ready” as we make our actions speak louder than our words. “People Get Ready” to make words mean something again as we put action to back up our rhetoric. “People Get Ready” as we embark on a new journey that will re-write America’s history as well as the world’s history. “People Get Ready” as we make the lives of others better and the lives of future generations better. “People Get Ready” because all we need is faith, hope and action to make this world a better place. “People Get Ready” to make a difference. “People Get Ready” to fulfill the American dream. “People Get Ready" to live out the American Dream as our founding fathers wanted us to live it. “People Get Ready” because our time is now, our moment is now and our moment in time to change America & the world is not now but right now. “People Get Ready” because a change is coming!
Alicia] (Let me tell you now) People get ready, there's a train comin' You don't need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin' You don't need no ticket, you just thank the lord
[Lyfe] People get ready, for a train to Jordan Picking up passengers coast to coast Faith is the key, open the doors and board them There's hope for all among those loved the most
[Alicia] There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner Who would hurt all man kind just to save his own (believe me now) Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner For there's no hiding place against the kingdoms throne
[Alicia & Lyfe] So people get ready there's a train coming You don't need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming, You don't need no ticket, you just thank the lord
I'm an individual who barely sleeps, always working, always planning, constantly analyzing places, people, and things while giving my heart and soul into everything that I do. Working diligently to make a differnce in the world one step at a time is my goal.
God has blessed me beyond my years and for that I owe everything to my Lord and Savior! This past summer has helped me change my life and the direction that I am headed. I am a server, a motivator, and a guiding force for the Lord. Therefore, I am who I am!
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"We don't need leaders. Don't wait for charismatic people or leaders to come up and do something but instead get on up and do something yourself." --Ella Baker
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"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong because some day you will have been all of these."
"Believe that the unthinkable isn't unimagineable"--Hodari P.T. Brown
"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people."--Cornel West
"Words matter but actions speak louder than words."--Hillary Rodham Clinton
"Share knowledge, pass knowledge, applaud achievements, seek achievements, love a brother, love our culture, and most of all be a brother by all cost."--Hodari P.T. Brown
"Always remember the people who tell you NO make you stronger, the people who tell you YES make you wiser, But the people who tell you nothing make you more of yourself."--Roderick Rice
"If you desire the thing, declare yourself to be the thing and it will manifest."--Unknown
“What made Malcolm X Shabazz a great man, is that he had the guts to say what nine-tenths of American Negroes would like to say but don't have the guts to say.”--a Chicago doctor, Militant, 19 April 1965, p.2
"We are the trend setters. We don't do what everyone else does, everyone else wants to do what we do." Message to B.L.A.C.K., Inc.--Hodari P.T. Brown
"Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something."
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."--Tom Brokaw
"Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week." --Jay-Z
"A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."--Malcolm X.
"Dr. King wants the same thing I want. Freedom."--Malcolm X.
"I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."--Malcolm X.
"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."—Malcolm X, Speech, Dec. 12 1964, New York City.
"I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation."--Malcolm X.
"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action."--Malcolm X.
"I want Dr. King to know that I didn't come to Selma to make his job difficult. I really did come thinking I could make it easier. If the white people realize what the alternative is, perhaps they will be more willing to hear Dr. King."--Malcolm X, in a conversation with Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
"If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."—Malcolm X, Speech, Nov. 1963, New York City.
"It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep."—Malcolm X, "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American."—Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet," speech, April 3 1964, Cleveland, Ohio (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 3, 1965).
"The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans."—Malcolm X, "Racism: the Cancer that is Destroying America," in Egyptian Gazette (Aug. 25 1964).
"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."—Malcolm X, Speech, Dec. 1, 1963, New York City.
"There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion."—Malcolm X, "Message to the Grass Roots," speech, Nov. 1963, Detroit (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 1, 1965).
"We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us."--Malcolm X
"When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom."--Malcolm X.
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."—Malcolm X, "Prospects for Freedom in 1965," speech, Jan. 7 1965, New York City (published in Malcolm X Speaks, ch. 12, 1965).
"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."--Malcolm X.
Concerning nonviolence, it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."—Malcolm X
“All of us are black first, and everything else second.”--Malcolm X, "God's angry men", WO, 31 May 1958 (FBI files 105-8999-788)
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.” --Malcolm X
“He got the peace prize, we got the problem. ... If I'm following a general, and he's leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over.”--Malcolm X, after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize, source unknown
“I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time.”--Malcolm X, "Homecoming" speech, 29 Nov. 1964, in By any means, p. 14 0
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.” --Malcolm X, after his journey, perhaps in interview 18 Jan. 1965, in By any means, p. 158
“I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.”--Malcolm X, to Harlem blacks, in By any means, p. 140
“I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.”--Malcolm X, (taken from the essay 'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
“I think that an objective analysis of events that are taking place on this earth today points towards some type of ultimate showdown. You can call it political showdown, or even a showdown between the economic systems that exist on this earth which almost boil down along racial lines. I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”--Malcolm X, January 19, 1965 (taken from the essay 'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
“I would like to point something out so that we'll understand each other better. I don't want you to think in the statements I made that I'm being disrespectful towards you as white people. I'm being frank. And I think that my statements will give you a better insight on the mind of a black man than most statements you get from most people who call themselves Negroes, who usually tell you what they want you to hear with the hope . . . that will make them draw closer to you and create a better possibility of getting from you some of the crumbs that you might let fall from your table. Well, I'm not looking for crumbs so I'm not trying to delude you.”--Malcolm X, at Boston University, 24 May 1960
“I'm the man you think you are.... If you want to know what I'll do, figure out what you'll do. I'll do the same thing--only more of it.”--Malcolm X, Source unknown
“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.”--Malcolm X, Chicago Defender, 28 Nov. 1962, p.8
“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.” Malcolm X, NYC, 19 February 1965
“It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.”--Malcolm X, Columbia University, Columbia Daily Spectator, 19 Feb. 1965, p.3
“It is not a case of our people . . . wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.”--Malcolm X, "Kup's Show", Channel 7, TV, Chicago, aired 23 May 1964, FBI, MMI 100-41040
“Look at yourselves. Some of you teen-agers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, "We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight." What did we do, who preceded you? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made. ...”--Malcolm X, December 31, 1964 (taken from the essay 'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
“Malcolm X about his father The image of him that made me proudest was his crusading and militant campaigning with the words of Marcus Garvey. . . . I can remember hearing . . . "Africa for the Africans," "Ethiopians, Awake!" And my father would talk about how it would not be much longer before Africa would be completely run by Negroes - "by black men," was the phrase he always used. "No one knows when the hour of Africa's redemption cometh. It is in the wind. It is coming. One day, like a storm, it will be there.”--Malcolm X, in Kenneth B. Clark, "King, Malcolm, Baldwin: Three Interviews", rev. ed. (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985), pp. 33-48
“Malcolm X about MLK. I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King.” Malcolm X, to 300 Islamic students, Manchester Guardian Weekly, 10 Dec. 1964, p.6
“My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” --Malcolm X
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American.”--Malcolm X, February 14, 1965 (taken from the essay 'Malcolm X, our revolutionary son & brother.' by Patricia Robinson)
“Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“Respect me, or put me to death.”--Malcolm X, NYC, 5 July 1964
“Stumbling is not falling.”--Malcolm X
“The dangers that confront the black man in America and Africa are very great and serious. These dangers cannot be fought with petty personality attacks, nor will they be fought with pretensions. The emancipation of all black people from white domination, oppression, and exploitation will be fought with revolutionary firmness, determination, dedication, honesty, and integrity. Black leaders cannot mobilize the grass roots to fight their oppression and exploitation while plagued with personal ambitions. We must submerge our past differences and create a unified black movement cutting across the United States and South America with deep roots in African soil. Africans abroad can thus through such a movement exert pressure on their governments in the formation of their foreign policies in regard to Africa. They can also form lobby groups such as other ethnic groups do in Washington to force the United States Government to accept the representation of African-Americans in all organs of government including those in charge of decisions. In short, in order that African-Americans must become free they must first re-identify themselves with Africa as do Jews, Irish, Germans, and Italians with the respective countries of their origin." The following where his remarks regarding black scholars and their role in the liberation of the African people at home and abroad: "Very often our people have been led to believe that a black man can only be considered an intellectual or scholar if he has been to Oxford University or Harvard University. This is not true. This approach to education has only helped to produce black Europeans out of our educated people and false black scholars who have been a liability to the black race in Africa and America over the period of one hundred years. What is actually meant by theoretical or academic education? The unity of theoretical education and the application of this wealth of knowledge to the practical requirements and demands of our liberation is a difficult challenge. In a freedom struggle such as the one that exists in Africa and America today the unity of thought and action must be the cornerstone of all of us who desire to work for the total emancipation of the black race. There is a wide superficial tendency among some of our intellectuals that reading quotations from Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse-Tung can make them masters of revolutionary theories developed by these great men. Intellectualism in my view is not merely the recitation of Marxism, Leninism, and Mao Tse-tung theories. Anyone who goes about misusing the works of these great men or attributing to himself their progressive phrases for his own ends is committing a serious crime against the black race. A scholar in my opinion constitutes a guiding light in a revolutionary period and is the bond that unites the abstract and the concrete.” Malcolm X, Concerning the black leaders and their respective organizations. Statements of Malcolm X in Mosque No. 7, (written down by Mburumba Kerina in "Malcolm X - The Apostle of Defiance - An African View")
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”--Malcolm X
“The only difference probably is that the Nation of Islam ... doesn't involve in politics in any form. ... But because of its failure to become actively involved in the struggle..., many persons ... have drifted away from it and are now becoming involved with us in an active effort toward solving the political, social, and economic evils that afflict our people.”--Malcolm X, Channel 5, WMBQ-TV, Chicago, transcript of "Dateline Chicago", 31 May 1964, "Black Muslims at the Crossroads"
“The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every op pressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, ... Cuba - yes Cuba too.”--Malcolm X, Militant, 10 June 1964, p.3
“The price of freedom is death.”--Malcolm X, NYC, June 1964
“The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia is existing in the hearts and minds of 20 million black people in this country who have been just as thoroughly colonized as the people in Africa and Asia.”--Malcolm X, "Separation or Integration", 7March 1962
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” --Malcolm X
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“We declare our right on this earth . . . to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in t his day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.”--Malcolm X, 28 June 1964 at the OAAU Founding Rally, in By any means necessary, p.56
“We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.”--Malcolm X, in a radio show, before 1963
“We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.”--Malcolm X, Harlem, cited in Goldman, "The Death and Life of Malcolm X", p.157
“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire . . . or preserve his freedom.”--Malcolm X, OAAU, "Homecoming" speech, 29 Nov. 1964, in By any means, p. 141
“When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church! If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization - civic, religious, fraternal, political or otherwise - that's based on lifting ... the black man up and making him master of his own community.” --Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet", Detroit
“Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.”--Malcolm X, speech at Militant Labor Forum, NY, 29 May 1964, in By any means necessary, p. 178
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”--Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”--Malcolm X, NYC, 20 Dec. 1964
“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”--Malcolm X
“You're the one that the book [Bible] is talking about who is dead: dead to the knowledge of yourself, dead to the knowledge of your own people, dead to the knowledge of your own God, dead to the knowledge of the devil. Why, you don't even know who the devil is. You think the devil is someone inside the ground that's going to burn you after you're dead. The devil is right here on top of this earth. He's got blue eyes, brown hair, whit e skin, and he's giving you hell every day. And you're too dead to see it.”--Malcolm X, "Unity Rally" speech, Harlem, 10 Aug. 1963
The Revoluntionary Prince
THUG LIFE--"The Hate U Give Little Infants F**** Everyone, meaning, what you feed us as seeds, grows, and blows up in your face, thats Thug Life." Thug Life is the opposite of someone having all he needs to succeed. Thug life is when you have nothing, and succeed, when you have overcome all obstacles to reach your aim.
Tupac Shakur Quotes
"And the raps that I'm rapping to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same atrocities 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
"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I don’t be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And that’s why I'm losing."—Tupac Shakur
"I am society’s child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me America." –Tupac Shakur
"I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven." --Tupac Shakur
"I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again." –Tupac Shakur
"I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be..." –Tupac Shakur
"I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings" –Tupac Shakur
"I never thought I was the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the realist nigga out there" –Tupac Shakur
"I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS." –Tupac Shakur
"If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does." –Tupac Shakur
"If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them." –Tupac Shakur
"If you know in this hotel room they have food every day and I knock on the door. Every day they open the door to let me see the party, let me see that they throwing' salami, throwing' food around telling me there's no food. Every day. I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in- "We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week the song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of the food! I'm breaking down the door." –Tupac Shakur
"If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that" –Tupac Shakur
"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight." –Tupac Shakur
"It always happens, all the niggaz that change the world die, they don't get to die like regular people, they die violently" –Tupac Shakur
"Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I’m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back." –Tupac Shakur
"My music is not for everyone. It's only for the strong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My music is spiritual. It's like Negro spirituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome." –Tupac Shakur
"My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down." –Tupac Shakur
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." --Tupac Shakur
"Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cause if we don’t we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one" –Tupac Shakur
"The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since"—Tupac Shakur
"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams." –Tupac Shakur
"The real tragedy is that there are some ignorant brothers out here. That's why I'm not on this all-White or all Black shit. I'm on this all-real or all fake shit with people, whatever color you are. Because niggaz will do you. I mean, there's some [foul] niggaz out there [in the streets]; the same niggaz that did Malcolm X, the same niggaz that did Jesus Christ- every brother ain't a brother. They will do you. So just because it's Black, don't mean it's cool. And just because it's White don't mean it's evil." –Tupac Shakur
"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 me don't quit like everyone else. I won't have no fear." –Tupac Shakur
"To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything." –Tupac Shakur
"We are in the midst of a very dangerous, non-productive, self-destructive civil war. And it's not just rap shit. It's ideals. And this rap shit is just bringing' it to a head. The East Coast believes one thing, and the West Coast believer one thing. The East Coast got one way of life, the West Coast got another way of life, and it always co-existed. We're coming to the turn of the century where we gotta mash together. But we can only do it one way, one style. And that's what we're trying to figure out now, and I think the world is watching that." –Tupac Shakur
"We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.”—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, don’t ask me why, thank god, and ask me how" –Tupac Shakur
“A coward dies a thousand deaths; A soldier dies but once.”—Tupac Shakur
“After a year it's like, "I'm picking' the lock, coming' through the door blasting." It's like, "I'm hungry." You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were asking' with the Panthers, we were asking' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were asking' are all dead or in jail, so what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?" –Tupac Shakur
“Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over, but this month I'm taking' every moving target out.”—Tupac Shakur - (Two weeks before his death)
“Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.”—Tupac Shakur, Vibe magazine interview (February 1996)
“For every dark night, there's a brighter day"—Tupac Shakur
“I am the future of black America.” –Tupac Shakur, Vibe magazine (September 1996)
“I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.”—Tupac Shakur
“I see no changes all I see is racist faces, misplaced hate makes disgrace to races. We under I wonder what it takes to make this one better place, let's erase the wasted. Take the evil out the people they'll be acting right 'cause both black and white is smoking' crack tonight and only time we chill is when we kill each other. It takes skill to be real, time to heal each other.” --Tupac Shakur on the song Changes, featured on the album 2Pac Greatest Hits
“I think the old should go through school again. I think that rich people should live like poor people, and poor people should live like rich people, and change every week.”—Tupac Shakur
“I wake up in the morning and I ask myself Is life worth living Should I blast myself?”—Tupac Shakur on the song Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto featured on the album U Still Down
“I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Only God Can Judge Me featured on the album All Eyes On Me
“I'm a ridah, Nobody cries when we die.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Life Goes On featured on the album on All Eyes On Me
“I'm like a fiend that finally sees when all the dope is gone My nerves is wrecked, heart beating and my hands is swollen thinking of the G's I'll be holding, picture me rolling.” –Tupac Shakur
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”—Tupac Shakur
“I'm one-hundred percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.”—Tupac Shakur
“If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.”—Tupac Shakur
“If it don't make dollars it don't make cents. ”—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
“In my death, people will understand what I was talking about. ”—Tupac Shakur
“It's kinda hard to be optimistic when your homie's lying dead on the pavement twisted.”--Tupac Shakur on the song How Long Will They Mourn Me featured on the album 2Pac’s Greatest Hits
“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 ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?" –Tupac Shakur
“It's not about East or West, It's about niggaz and b*****s, power and money, ridaz and punks. Which side are you on?”—Tupac Shakur
“It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.”—Tupac Shakur, Vibe magazine (September 1996)
“June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell razing heavenly son.”—Tupac Shakur
“Let the Lord judge the criminals.”—Tupac Shakur
“My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.”—Tupac Shakur
“My Mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for.”—Tupac Shakur
“My momma didn't raise no fool.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Changes featured on the album -2Pac’s Greatest Hits
“My only fear of death is reincarnation.”—Tupac Shakur on the song No More Pain featured on the album All Eyes On Me
“Niggers were the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing; Niggas is the one with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.”—Tupac Shakur in the movie Tupac Resurrection
“Of course I'm going to say I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE! –Tupac Shakur
“Only God can judge me.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Only God Can Judge Me featured on the album All Eyes On Me
“Pull your strap on me nigga, you better kill me.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Thug Luv featured on the album The Art Of War by Bone Thugs
“Take ones adversity! Learn from their misfortune! Learn from their pain! Believe in something! Believe in yourself! Turn adversity into ambition! Now blossom into wealth! Ambition over Adversity!”—Tupac Shakur
“That which does not kill me can only make me stronger and I don't see why everybody feels as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life. Let me live baby, let me live.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Only God Can Judge Me (Interlude), featured on the album All Eyez On Me
“The only way to change me is maybe blow my brains out.”—Tupac Shakur on the song Nothing To Lose featured on the album R U Still Down
“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
“There's gonna' be some stuff that your gonna' see. That's gonna' make it hard to smile in the future. But whatever you see, through all the rain and pain. You gotta keep a sense of humor. Gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that! Just keep ya head up!”—Tupac Shakur on the song Smile for Me Now, featured on the album Death Row Greatest Hits
“They got money for wars but they can't feed the poor.” –Tupac Shakur
“We gotta make a change... It's time for us as a people to start making' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive.” --Tupac Shakur on the song Changes (Interlude), featured on the album 2Pac Greatest Hits
“We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?”—Tupac Shakur
“What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.” –Tupac Shakur
“When I speak, I want my words to mean something. I want my words to make people shiver.”—Tupac Shakur ~ 1994 Interview
“When I was alone, and had nothing. I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain. No one came, except God. When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep. No one could help me.. except God. When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers. No one heard me, except God. So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God. God!”—Tupac Shakur
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