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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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Tupac Shakur (Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996)
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Before we go any further, can we all just admit that junior high sucks eggs? I have never met a person who said, “Man. Seventh grade was the best.” And if I did, I would not want them in my life. Like a person who wears Crocs on purpose, or prefers Pepsi over Coke, I don’t need that kind of delusional idiocy in my life.
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Tyler Merritt (I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America)
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I stuck to clips of him defending himself against the rape allegations and talking in general about wanting to inspire people. And yes, I took the best of what he had said about there not being an East Coast–West Coast beef and his clarification that it was about one person dealing with another person. My decision was to use the brief on-air cuts to put some good in the world—to leave his message in but take out the super-inflammatory stuff, even if it was about eighty-five percent of the interview. In the end I played the pieces that really captured the best part of Tupac.
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Angie Martinez (My Voice: A Memoir)