Tupac Shakur Quotes

Love IS the People's Power

Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Everything he wanna have-I got.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Can you picture my prophecy?

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

Don't live to fight, fight to live.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

America wants its respect.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.

But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God