Top 475 Quotes & Sayings by Tupac Shakur - Page 6

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

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

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

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 the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.

I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

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.

we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how

Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know, from way before Kiss me from my head to my toe, Gimme a paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin, Couple bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

Before we find world peace, we gotta find peace in the war on the streets.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

I guarantee if people keep mm..supportin' me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts, just supporting me..I'ma keep givin' money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I'm putting money up for community centers.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

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.

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.

Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

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.

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.

And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

While I'm dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.