Quotes from Tupac Shakur

I'm a sucker for love

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}

Love IS the People's Power

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

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

I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

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

Everybody's at war with different things…I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.