Tupac Shakur Quotes

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.

My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.

You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

Dying on the inside, but outside you're looking fearless

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.

Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.

You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me

We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.

Tomorrow comes after the dark

After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

fear no man but only God

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.