Quotes By Tupac Shakur

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

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

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

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

To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.

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 want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

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

I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I'm gonna put out an introspective album.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun.

They ordered the extermination of all minds they couldn't control.

When your heart turns cold, it causes your soul to freeze.

Believe in yourself and don't let nobody stopping you from doing what you gotta do, you gotta have faith. If you can't find faith in the world, find faith in God, find faith in yourself but you gotta have faith.

They loved the sight of your dimming, and flickering starlight. How could they understand what was so intricate to be loved by so many, so intimate.

I only follow my voice inside. If it guides me wrong and I do not win, I'll learn from my mistakes and try to achieve again.

If it meant my love was really true, I'd gladly die and watch over you.

I admire work ethic. I think that it should be reinforced throughout our neighborhoods. Everybody should work hard. Practice makes perfect. You have to be diligent about what you want. You have to apply yourself. You have to motivate yourself. You have to do it for self by yourself. And then, you can do things for other people. But that's what I had to do. I had to do for self.

We asked 10 years ago. We was asking with the Panthers, we was asking with the Civil Rights Movement. Now, those people that were asking are now all dead and in jail.

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

Only thing they ever did wrong was bein' born black in this white man's world.