Tupac Shakur Quotes

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Things change that's the way it is.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

With all my fans I got a family again.

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. 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 thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

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.

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

I'm a sucker for love

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.

Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

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

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.

The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

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.

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

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.

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

You can't disrespect the love. You can't disrespect the peace treaty.

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

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me,He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.