Black History Month: 15 Revolutionary Tupac Shakur Quotes
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People connect most with authenticity and honesty. That could explain why so many of us are still hanging on Tupac Shakur’s every quote. Still admiring his soul, compassion and righteous angst. “I’m not saying I’m going to rule the world or I’m going to change the world,” Shakur once said at a young age. “But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
It’s Tupac Shakur quotes like these that keep us inspired and motivated to eradicate mediocrity from our lives. Click continue to re-live some of his best revolutionary quotes.
Black History Month: 15 Revolutionary Tupac Shakur Quotes
“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education—a real sex education class—not just pictures and diaphragms and ‘un-logical’ terms and things like that.….there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let’s learn volleyball.”
“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?”
“My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge—search for knowledge, it’s an eternal journey.—that’s like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there’s something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.”
“I don’t know how to change [the world] but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon’ clean it up.”
“I’m not saying i’m going to rule the world or I’m going to change the world but I guarantee will spark the brain that will change the world.”
“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.”
“I think rich people should live like poor people and poor people should live like rich people and they should change every week”
“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.”
“Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.”
“My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.”
“My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.”
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