"My mama always used to tell me:..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
More by Tupac Shakur
“No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.”
“You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.”
“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.”
More on Purpose
“Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.”
“Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something, it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.”
“Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.”
More on Life
“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.”
“Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.”
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”