Quotes By Tupac Shakur

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

The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it's planted in stone.

Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow.

Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.

Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn for affection.

I'm not saying girls are perfect cause we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you?

I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.

When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm, peace. And three minutes after that, it was on.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

Don't believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies.

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

We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.

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.

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

People die but legends live forever.

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

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

We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don't ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.

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.