Tupac Shakur Quotes

“If you don't know me, don't judge me.”

“I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.”

“I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.”

“I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.”

“It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.”

“Follow the rules or follow the fools.”

“Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.”

“The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.”

“And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.”

“I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.”

“Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows”

“Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.”

“And thats the way it was and thats the way the cookie crumbles”

“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.”

“I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.”

“You got to constantly be in character.”

“Everyday there's more death, and plus I'm doughless. I'm seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.”

“There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."”

“How can I be a man if there is no role model?”

“Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.”

“The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.”

“Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.”

“It's hard to care when no one loves you.”

“It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”

“Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.”