Time to heal our women, be real to our women

​​Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

I give a holla to my sisters on welfare
2Pac cares, if don't nobody else care

And, I know they like to beat you down a lot
When you come around the block, brothers clown a lot

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget, girl, keep your head up
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And when he tells you you ain't nothin', don't believe him
And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him
Cause sister, you don't need him

And I ain't tryin' to gas ya up, I just call 'em how I see 'em
You know what makes me unhappy
When brothers make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy

And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?
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I think it's time to kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies that make the babies

And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one

So will the real men get up

I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up


​- Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head Up