"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."
Thug quotes
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"Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes."
"Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die."
"There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that."
"No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed."
"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams"
"All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die."
"When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles."
"The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it."
"If you don't know me, don't judge me."
"You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up."
"Let the Lord judge the criminals."
"But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid Before my numbers called, historys made Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame? Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is."
"That which does not kill me can only make me stronger."
"I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it"
"The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal."
"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
"Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?"
"But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up"
"Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best."
"Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost."