“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you ba...” — Tupac Shakur Quote

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

“I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.”

“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”

“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

“I'll probably be punished for hard living.”

“Outside, it is so quiet.”

“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”

“When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.”

“Future generations will remember me not for sitting on that chair, but for getting up when the time came.”

“Time is not a healer but a sculptor, carving eccentric memories into the fabric of destiny.”