Top 475 Quotes & Sayings by Tupac Shakur - Page 3

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

strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same.

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

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

We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

Fear is stronger than love

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

What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

Forgive, but don't forget

Never surrender, it's all about the faith that you got.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

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? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

Dear Mama, don't cry, your baby boy's doin' good, Tell the homies I'm in heaven, and they ain't got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Drippin' peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

We don't need no more rappers, we don't need no more basketball players, no more football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers. We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we don't need any more entertainers

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

My only fear of death is reincarnation

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.

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.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

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

God come save the youth, Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

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

In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.

Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror I hate the man in the mirror Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.

Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life

Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?

My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.

Even the genius ask questions.

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Only God can judge me.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back