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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It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
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.
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Thug Life to me is dead.
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
I'm a reflection of the community.
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