Tupac Shakur Quotes

“Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.”

“Forgive, but don't forget”

“Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out.”

“Everything he wanna have-I got.”

“Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?”

“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.”

“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.”

“Stay in the game until the end of time.”

“If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.”

“I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”

“It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.”

“Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots”

“I'm a reflection of the community.”

“But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

“I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.”

“How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?”

“I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn't buy my records if my records wasn't good. I'm being who i am in the record.”

“Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!”

“We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers”

“My cellmate's raped on the norm, and passed around the dorm, you can hear his asshole getting torn.”

“Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.”

“My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge always. And she taught me to not be quiet, if there's something on my mind speak it. But also to listen.”

“I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.”

“I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death”

“If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.”