Quotes By Tupac Shakur

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

There's no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there's people starving. There's no way! There's no way that these people should own planes and there people don't have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you're rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms?

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.

Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.

Now the baby's in the trash heap balling.

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.