"I'm doing this for the kid who..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur

“Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.”

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

“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.”

“Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.”

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

“Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”

“Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.”

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”