Tupac Shakur Quotes

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!

I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody's gonna find out about.

Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.

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

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

We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

I'm gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.

I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people.

Don't cry through your dispair.

The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

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

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.

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

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.

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

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?

Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

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

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

I ain't racist but lets trade places.

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

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.

Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us.

I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.

I don't know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody gon clean it up.

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes

The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.

There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

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

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

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.

I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.

Things change that's the way it is.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.