Tupac Shakur Quotes

If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.

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?

No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty.

Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight

God come save the youth, Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand.

If you don't know me, don't judge me.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

With all my fans I got a family again.

I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Even the genius ask questions.

Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.

Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Don't cry through your dispair.

Play the game, never let the game play you.

I'm gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best.

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?

The trick is to never lose hope!

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.