Tupac Shakur Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

With all my fans I got a family again.

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.

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

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

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.

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

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

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.

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.

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

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

Must my guns Make em all Scatter,Bullets to my nuts only made my balls fatter.

If we're all saying that rap is an artform then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them.

I make sure everybody die , when we ride on your enemies.

GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except GodWhen I needed a breath to rise, from my sleepNo one could help me.. except GodWhen all I saw was sadness, and I needed answersNo one heard me, except GodSo when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to?I look for no other name, except God

My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated

When will there be peace on earth?When the earth has fallen to pieces.

Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fightWhy am I trying to see, when there aint nothing in sightWhy am I trying to give, when no one gives me a tryWhy am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die?someone tell me y

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

I' ve been shot five times but im still breathing living proof there a god if you need a reason.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottleI make mistakes but learn from every oneAnd when it's said and doneI bet this brother be a better oneIf I upset you dont stressNever forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

A coward dies a thousand deaths... a soldier dies but once.

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

Expect me nigga like you'd expect jesus to come back expect me nigga im coming.

I'm barely standin, bout to go pieces screaming PEACE!

No Man Alive has witness struggles i survived

So complicated to escape fate. And you can never understand til' we trade places

Everybody's dyin tell me what's the use of tryin I've been Trapped since birth, cautious, cause I'm cursed.

If you walked by a street and as you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

Been livin lavish like a player all day.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

To all the seeds that follow meprotect your essenceBorn with less, but you still precious.

I don't mean to sound sleezy but tease me I don't want it if it's that easy.

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

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

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

God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

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

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

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

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

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.

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

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...

Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.

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.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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...

A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

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

I gotta big mouth, I can’t help it, I talk from my heart, I’m real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it’s not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that haven’t been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger..

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

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

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

Real eyes, realize, real lies..

You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other people. That's what I had to do, I had to do for self..

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.

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

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?

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

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

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.

If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.

The trick is to never lose hope!

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

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom,education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

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.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

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

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer

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.

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