Quotes from Tupac Shakur

Even the genius asks questions.

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

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.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.

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

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

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

America wants its respect.

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

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

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

With all my fans I got a family again.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

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.

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.

My Mama always use to tell me, If you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for...

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

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.

Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.

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

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. 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.