Quotes By Tupac Shakur

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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

America wants its respect.

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

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

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

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.