"People love to have mercy and sympathy for everything, from the animals to the whales to fur, everything.. Except us; your youth. The ones you give no attention to, who become adults with no compassion. I feel like if you’re walking down the street, walking on some concrete, and you see a rose growing out of concrete, even if it had messed up petals or its a little, you know, to the side, you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow from concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of all of the dirtiest circumstances, and he can talk and he can sit across from you and make you smile, make you cry, make you laugh, all you’re gonna talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems, and how I’m leaning crooked to the side? You can’t even see that I came up out of that shit. And that’s exactly the analogy that I use for me."
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (via comingbackwithpower)
Truth.
(Source: guccimani, via postmodsexgeek)
