Tupac Shakur Quotes

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...

Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.

If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger

Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

People die and people cry people want me dead.

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it.

Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what's, next, In this world full of countless threats.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

Love IS the People's Power

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went.

You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town.

I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.