The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.
Tupac ShakurAll good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
Tupac ShakurThough are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.
Tupac ShakurThereโs no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then thereโs people starving. Thereโs no way! Thereโs no way that these people should own planes and there people donโt have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know youโre rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know thereโs somebody with no room?! It just donโt make sense to me. It donโt.
Tupac ShakurWhen 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.
Tupac Shakur