Tupac Shakur Quotes

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

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

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

There ain't no place like paradise.

I'm a sucker for love

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

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

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.

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

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

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.

America wants its respect.

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

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what's on my mind.

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

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.

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

It aint about black or white cause we're human

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'.

Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.