"I would rather have been shot straight-up..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur

“Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terrorI hate the man in the mirrorCause his reflection makes the pain turn realer”

“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'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.”

“When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.”

“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.”

“It is often our best friends who throw us down.”

“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”

“There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.”

“All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?”