Tupac Shakur
rapper, songwriter, actor, poet, activist, lyricist, television actor, film actor, singer, dancer
Read on Wikipedia1971 – 1996
All Quotes by Tupac Shakur
“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”
“I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven”
“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”
“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.”
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
“All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”
“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.”
“With all my fans I got a family again.”
“There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.”
“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”
“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.”
“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”
“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”
“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”
“I'm a reflection of the community.”
“Thug Life to me is dead.”
“With all my fans I got a family again.”
“In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.”
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”
“Let the Lord judge the criminals.”
“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”
“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.”
“I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.”
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
“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.”
“When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.”
“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.”
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”
“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
“All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”
“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?”
“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.”
“We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.”
“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.”
“There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.”
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”
“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”
“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.”
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.”
“Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?”
“I'll probably be punished for hard living.”
“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.”
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
“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.”
“America wants its respect.”