Tupac Shakur Quotes

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

“It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.”

“I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.”

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

“In my brain all I think about is fame.”

“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.”

“The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.”

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

“God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.We try to cry, but still they all die,I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.”

“To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.”

“Love IS the People's Power”

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

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

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

“Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.”

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

“With all my fans I got a family again.”

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”

“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”

“You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

“Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt”

“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”

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

“All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to survive here in this country... 'cause I'm not going back to Africa. We got to survive here. And for us to survive here-White folks, Black folks, Korean folks, Mexican folks, Puerto Ricans-we got to understand each other.”

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

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”

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

“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.”

“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.”

“No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.”

“My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.”

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

“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”

“I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.”

“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.”

“It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”

“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”

“Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.”

“Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.”

“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.”

“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”

“Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.”

“I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.”

“Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!”

“For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean”