Tupac Shakur

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

With all my fans I got a family again.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

I'm a reflection of the community.

— Tupac Shakur

Thug Life to me is dead.

— Tupac Shakur

With all my fans I got a family again.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

— Tupac Shakur

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

— 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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

— Tupac Shakur