All Of Tupac's Quotes & Sayings

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up — Tupac Shakur

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son. — Tupac Shakur

Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name. — Tupac Shakur

When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for — Tupac Shakur

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

If you don't know me, don't judge me. — Tupac Shakur

I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend. — Stephanie Mills

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal — Tupac Shakur

No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here. — Tupac Shakur

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one — Tupac Shakur

We should remember what a rapper like Tupac Shakur was doing, to a certain degree, who came from an experience of politicization very close to being a "Panther Baby". He knew, he came from that experience of the Black Panthers, and accounting for all his contradictions and process of growth, he achieved politically through gangsta rap things that no conscious rapper has achieved, such as establishing political, ethical, and moral codes between Crips and Bloods in the United States. — Bocafloja

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day. — J. Cole

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 ... — Tupac Shakur

You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.
Tupac Shakur — Tupac Shakur

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions. — Tupac Shakur

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on. — Tupac Shakur

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

I'm calling for dialogue. I'm gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power. — Tupac Shakur

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me. — Tupac Shakur

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

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. — Tupac Shakur

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable. — Michael Eric Dyson

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? — Tupac Shakur

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out. — Tupac Shakur

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

Study your lessons, don't settle for less. — Tupac Shakur

Can't nobody touch me right now. Maybe next month all of this will be over. But this month I'm takin' every movin' target out. — Tupac Shakur

They ordered the extermination
of all minds they couldn't control — Tupac Shakur

After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway. — Tupac Shakur

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that. — 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 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

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that. — Tupac Shakur

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? — Tupac Shakur

Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive. — Tupac Shakur

There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on. — Marco Rubio

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all. — Tupac Shakur

To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything. — Tupac Shakur

When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered
Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered
He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak
You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be
When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow
Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow
Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all
What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls — Tupac Shakur

I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why. — Tupac Shakur

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight. — Tupac Shakur

I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with ... Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal ... Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment. — Tupac Shakur

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff. — Donald Byrd

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you. — Tupac Shakur

In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that. — Tupac Shakur

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

It's hard to care when no one loves you. — Tupac Shakur

Only God can judge me now — Tupac Shakur

Don't live to fight, fight to live. — Tupac Shakur

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. — Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real. — Tupac Shakur

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake. — Tupac Shakur

For every single dark night there is a brighter day. — Tupac Shakur

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened ... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on. — Tupac Shakur

If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire. — Tupac Shakur

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me,
He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be. — Tupac Shakur

Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know. — J.M. Darhower

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions. — Tupac Shakur

It's just me against the world. — Tupac Shakur

If we're all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you're saying, it don't matter that you didn't make them die, it just matters that you didn't save them. — Tupac Shakur

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

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL — Tupac Shakur

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for. — Wale

Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me
Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me? — Tupac Shakur

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. — Tupac Shakur

Forgive, but don't forget — Tupac Shakur

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night ...
What of fame?
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone.. — Tupac Shakur

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

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game. — Tupac Shakur

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it. — Tupac Shakur

It's time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but angry and open our minds. — Tupac Shakur

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack — Tupac Shakur

Is it a crime to fight for what is mine? — Tupac Shakur

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

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent. — Tupac Shakur

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

You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic. — Junot Diaz

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. — Jhene Aiko

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life. — Tupac Shakur

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X — Tupac Shakur

I was born Ezeogo Igariwey to live my life a legacy for the world,like a wound that healed with a scar that remains."My legacy will leave a mark on the world and I shall never be forgetten for my good,bad,and ugly deeds. — Tupac Shakur

I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype. — ASAP Rocky

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. — Tupac Shakur