Tupac Shakur Quotes

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

I ain't racist but lets trade places.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

It’s just me against the world.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

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.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in this country? Almost everyone in America is affiliated with some kind of gang. We got the FBI, the ATF, the police departments, the religious groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. Everybody's got their own little clique and they're all out there gangbanging in their own little way.

I'm a sucker for love

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.

There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

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?

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated

Don't leave this world without giving it your all.

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.

I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

How can I be a man if there is no role model?