Tupac Shakur Quotes

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

That girl can barely spell her name.

Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Though 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.

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

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

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

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.

Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re 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 there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn't buy my records if my records wasn't good. I'm being who i am in the record.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party