Tupac: Resurrection Page #3

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You know, theater, ballet...

...listening to different types of music,

songs that became

a soundtrack to my life.

But in my homeboys' high school,

it's not like that.

They don't have trips

to go see this Broadway play,

they don't read things we read.

They didn't know when I was like:

"Yo, Shakespeare's dope." They don't

have the same experiences we had.

Then I started thinking

the art school I went to

was mostly for white kids

and rich minorities.

I started going, "I would have

been totally different

"had I not been exposed to this."

I was living in the ghetto.

We didn't have lights and electricity.

- We was about to get evicted.

- We want home!

We want heat! We want lights!

We want something

to do for our children!

I thought, "We're not being taught

to deal with the world as it is."

The rich should live

like the poor,

the poor should live like the rich.

They should change every week.

The president stirred up

a hornets' nest earlier this week

when he suggested

the problems of the hungry

came about because they were

uninformed about where to go for help.

How could Reagan live in a White

House, which has a lot of rooms,

and there be homelessness?

And he's talking about helping.

I don't believe that there is anyone

that is going hungry in America

simply by reason

of denial or lack of ability

to feed them.

It is by people not knowing

where or how to get this help.

Why can't he take people off the street

and put them in his White House?

Then he'll have people from the streets

to help him with his ideas.

Not helpless! Homeless!

Not helpless!

They haven't been homeless forever.

They've done things in society.

The White House would be tainted

because he doesn't want to get dirty.

Growing up in America, I loved my

childhood, but I hated growing up poor.

We live in hell. We live in the gutter.

We live in a war zone.

We've got us stacked

up 80-deep in one building.

When you get out your house,

you're strapped to protect yourself.

The same crime element

that white people are scared of

black people are scared of.

While they waiting for legislation

to pass, we next door to the killer.

All them killers they let out,

they're in that building.

Just because we black,

we get along with the killers?

What is that?

We need protection too.

Then I came to California

to escape that violence.

Come to Marin City,

and there's even more poverty.

I was starting to see the one

thing we have in common

as black people,

is we share that poverty.

I made it to where I had knowledge

this wasn't just me.

It was a bigger picture.

It was my people getting dogged.

It wasn't just my family.

It was all of us.

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