Tupac Best 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

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

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

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

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. — Fred Hampton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers. — J. Cole

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

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

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

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. — Tupac Shakur

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best. — Tupac Shakur

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row — Tupac Shakur

I'm gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best. — Tupac Shakur

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change. — 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

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

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

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

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only God can judge me now — Tupac Shakur

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

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

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

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

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