Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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

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.

But I know for a fact that had I had a father, I'd have some discipline. I'd have more confidence. Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can't reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn't show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

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

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.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.