Quotes by 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

Wisdom

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

Life

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

— Tupac Shakur

Hope

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

— Tupac Shakur

Life

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Courage

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

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Hope

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

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

Wisdom

Thug Life to me is dead.

— Tupac Shakur

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.

— Tupac Shakur

Education

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

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom

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

— Tupac Shakur

Life

I'm a reflection of the community.

— Tupac Shakur

Wisdom