Tupac Shakur Quotes

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I gotta stop treating people like I owe them something.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

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.

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

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

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

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

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

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery.

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

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble.

Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.

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

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds.

Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

It’s just me against the world.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

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.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor;

you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

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

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.

Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see.

When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

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