Tupac Shakur Quotes

“I'm down for you, so ride with me.My enemies your enemies,Cause you ain't ever had a friend like me.”

“I was raised in the city, shittyEver since I was an itty bitty kittyDrinkin' liquor out my momma's tittyAnd smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,And drinking liquor til' you out cold”

“Even a genius has his questions.”

“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”

“You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

“Take ones adversityLearn from their misfortuneLearn from their painBelieve in somethingBelieve in yourselfTurn adversity into ambitionNow blossom into wealth”

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

“There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.”

“This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.”

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”

“You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.”

“I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!”

“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”

“Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.”

“I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.”

“Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL”

“You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me”

“You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?”

“Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.”

“Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?”

“Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes”

“I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.”

“I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

“It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.”

“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.”