"There should be a class on drugs...." - Quote by Tupac Shakur

“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.”

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

“In my brain all I think about is fame.”

“Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.”

“It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.”

“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.”

“In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.”

“Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.”

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”