Tupac Shakur Quotes
"It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Time)
"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Crime, Fight)
"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'"
- Tupac Shakur
"If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Death, God)
"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Business)
"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Time, Blind, Man, Mind)
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Dreams, Reality, Wrong)
"Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?"
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Care, Cause, Help)
"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Family, Home, Money, Boys, Police)
"The only time I have problems is when I sleep."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Time, Problems, Sleep)
"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Leader, Authority, Respect)
"Thug Life to me is dead."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Life)
"We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins."
- Tupac Shakur
"What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Life, Change)
"When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Character, Rap)
"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Dreams, Man)
"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: People, Answers, Being, Man)
"With all my fans I got a family again."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Family, Fans)
"Let the Lord judge the criminals."
- Tupac Shakur
"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Trying)
"America wants its respect."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: America, Respect)
"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Change)
"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."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Music)
"I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: People, Blood)
"I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Talk)
"I'm a reflection of the community."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Community, Reflection)
"I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Life, People, Affection, Giving)
"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Crime, Months)
"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable."
- Tupac Shakur
"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Life, Music, Business, Day)
"I'll probably be punished for hard living."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Living)
"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."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Society, Mother, Old, Reality, Years)
"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Death, Fear)
"It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: God, Man, Struggle)