"We talk a lot about Malcom X..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur
We talk a lot about Malcom 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.
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“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.”
“This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.”
“Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.”
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“I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.”
“In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.”
“Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident.”
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“So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.”
“Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.”
“We fail our children if we say, 'Don't do as I do, but do as I say'.”