Tupac Shakur Quotes

“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”

“Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.”

“Niggaz need guns, too.”

“I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.”

“The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?”

“Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.”

“I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.”

“That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.”

“Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.”

“The third always speaks the unspeakable words.”

“Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}”

“Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.”

“Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.”

“I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.”

“EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH”

“I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.”

“Real eyes, realize, real lies.”

“Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. I've written songs that show great love and respect for women too. Songs that talk about strong, upstanding women and their pain. I have women working on my music. They understand where I'm coming from. So does my mama. I always play my music for her before it comes out. Why do you think I wrote "Dear Mama"? I wrote it for my mama because I love her and I felt I owed her something deep.”

“You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self.”

“Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.”

“Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.”

“Love IS the People's Power”

“The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.”

“Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.”

“Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in meWould you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?”