"Life in the pen ain't for me..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
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“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
“This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,Has a learning in his eyeNot a poor fool understands.”
“Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.”
More on Death
“No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others”
“Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.”
“Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.”