Quotes from Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

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.

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

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

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.

With all my fans I got a family again.

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

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

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 things.

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

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

Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.

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.

I'm a reflection of the community.

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

Fear is stronger than love