Quotes By Tupac Shakur

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

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.

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.

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.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

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.

With all my fans I got a family again.

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

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

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a reflection of the community.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

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

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.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

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.

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

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

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

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.

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

Thug Life to me is dead.