Tupac Shakur Quotes

“We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.”

“If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.”

“Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.”

“It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.”

“I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.”

“The trick is to never lose hope!”

“In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.”

“If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.”

“When I die and they come for me bury me a g.”

“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.”

“Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.”

“If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play”

“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 things.”

“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”

“What people do for the struggle of power is madness.”

“Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised”

“They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.”

“I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.”

“Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy”

“That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.”

“I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.”

“I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.”

“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.”

“We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.”

“And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.”