Tupac Shakur Quotes

Don’t leave this world without giving it your all.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

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

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

We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would 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, don't ask me why, thank god, and ask me how.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

The realest people don't have a lot of friends.

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.

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.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

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.

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.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

They got money for the war, but can't feed the poor.

Thug Life to me is dead.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

If you love something let it go. If it comes back to you it's yours. It it doesn't, it never was.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection.

I never had that in my life.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

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.

With all my fans I got a family again.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

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.

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.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

America wants its respect.