Tupac Shakur Quotes

“For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean”

“They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.”

“You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.”

“My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.”

“I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!”

“I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.”

“I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen centsIt's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent”

“I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I've reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.”

“How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again”

“I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.”

“I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.”

“Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.”

“Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.”

“But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.”

“My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.”

“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

“Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!”

“While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.”

“I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.”

“I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.”

“Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.”

“Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row”

“Nobody should be hitting lotto for 36 million dollars when we got people starving in the streets. That is not idealistic, that's just real. That is just stupid. There's no way Michael Jackson, or whoever should have thousands, millions, billions of dollars and we got people broke with two-three jobs and still can't pay bills on time. There's no way! No way these people should have planes when people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants!!!”

“Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.”

“To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.”