1. We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

- Tupac

2. Ain’t a woman alive that can take my momma’s place.

- Tupac

3. That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don’t see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.

- Tupac

4. I’m not sayin’ I’m gonna rule the world, or that I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

- Tupac

5. 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

6. All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

- Tupac

7. There’s gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna 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

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

- Tupac

9. 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.

- Tupac

10. 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.

- Tupac

11. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

- Tupac

12. Never surrender, it’s all about the faith you got; don’t ever stop, just push it ‘till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fail.

- Tupac

13. You can never ‘just be friends’ with someone you fall in love with.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

15. You just can’t be calling us fakers and pretenders and non-creative and say we can’t freestyle.

- Tupac

16. I’ll probably be punished for hard living.

- Tupac

17. I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one. And when it’s said and done, I bet this brother be a better one. If I upset you don’t stress; never forget, that God isn’t finished with me yet.

- Tupac

18. Every time I speak I want the truth to come out. Every time I speak I want a shiver. I don’t want them to be like they know what I’m gonna say because it’s polite. I’m not saying I’m gonna rule the world or I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee you that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

- Tupac

19. Tupac was a revolutionary, and being a revolutionary takes more than shooting pistols and getting tattoos.

- Tupac

20. I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.

- Tupac

21. We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart.

- Tupac

22. 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.

- Tupac

23. If you let a person talk long enough you’ll hear their true intentions! Listen twice, speak once.

- Tupac

24. Many dreams are what we had and plenty wishes.

- Tupac

25. Every time I think about Tupac or hear a song, I think about how much work he put in. He could never have put in that much if he didn’t have passion for it. The things that he talked about, he actually believed.

- Tupac

26. One day I’m gonna bust, blow up on this society. Why did you lie to me? I couldn’t find a trace of equality.

- Tupac

27. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

- Tupac

28. I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up and handle it.

- Tupac

29. I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.

- Tupac

30. Life’s a wheel of fortune and it’s my chance to spin it.

- Tupac

31. He was so polite and nice. He was counter to his persona.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

33. 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.

- Tupac

34. Every day, I’m standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we needsome food. After two, three weeks, it’s like: Give me the food Or I’m breaking down the door. After a year you’re just like: I’m picking the lock. Coming through the door blasting.

- Tupac

35. America wants its respect.

- Tupac

36. Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

- Tupac

37. If you could walk a mile in my shoes you’d be crazy too.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

39. 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.

- Tupac

40. In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

42. I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

- Tupac

43. Of course I’m going to say ‘I’m a thug,’ that’s because I came from the gutter and I’m still here!

- Tupac

44. Let the Lord judge the criminals.

- Tupac

45. I don’t want it if it’s that easy.

- Tupac

46. I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.

- Tupac

47. If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die. It just matters that you didn’t save them.

- Tupac

48. We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don’t ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.

- Tupac

49. Even warriors put their spears down on Sundays.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

51. Can’t close my eyes cause all I see is terror. I hate the man in the mirror cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer.

- Tupac

52. Why can’t [the President] take some of those people off the street and put them in his White House? Then he’ll have people from the street to help him with his ideas. They haven’t been homeless forever; they’ve done things for society.

- Tupac

53. If I was white, I would be like John Wayne. I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Somebody who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, from poverty.

- Tupac

54. I shall not fear man but God, though I walk through the valley of death.

- Tupac

55. What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

- Tupac

56. My mama always used to tell me: ‘if you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’

- Tupac

57. What people do for the struggle of power is madness.

- Tupac

58. If you had any consciousness of the reality we live in, you could feel his energy. You knew he was a special individual. He was very prolific in expressing himself. He had a lot of hostility. I think it was just misguided and misdirected. It was obvious he was a genius, he was a prodigy. He was just amazing as far as his energy was concerned. He was explosive — like a black panther ready to pounce.

- Tupac

59. Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

- Tupac

60. I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

- Tupac

61. I don’t want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do, I say what’s on my mind.

- Tupac

62. 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.

- Tupac

63. We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

- Tupac

64. I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.

- Tupac

65. 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.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

68. Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

- Tupac

69. This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

71. I know what good morals are, but you’re supposed to disregard good morals when you’re living in a crazy, bad world. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.

- Tupac

72. No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is greedier than most. You could sell ‘em your soul and they’ll be on ya till a nigga’s a ghost.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

74. Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off, it don’t fade. It’ll last for all these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I’ma still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love.

- Tupac

75. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn for affection.

- Tupac

76. I’ve had never in my life met a person like Pac. He had so much charisma. And he was poor. When I met Pac, he owned two pairs of pants and two sweaters. He used to tell me all the time. He was like, ‘Jada, you’re a superstar.’ He didn’t say it about himself.

- Tupac

77. You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or 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 f*** on.

- Tupac

78. The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

- Tupac

79. With all my fans I got a family again.

- Tupac

80. Hip Hop when it started it was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. Now it seems like I was starting to get caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about. As long as the music has the true to the heart soul it can be hip hop. As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

- Tupac

81. A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.

- Tupac

82. Tupac taught me that in truth there is freedom. He spoke his mind and said what was in his heart.

- Tupac

83. Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.

- Tupac

84. There’s no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated.

- Tupac

85. I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought ‘thug life’ to America. I didn’t create ‘thug life;’ I diagnosed it.

- Tupac

86. Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies.

- Tupac

87. I said, I’m gonna write a song about the women like my mom, women like my sister, who I think represent the strong black women, and I did that. Now I’mma write about the women I see everyday and that was ‘[I] Get Around.’ If I just write songs like ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ it would make me seem more than what I am, but I’m just a normal man.

- Tupac

88. What makes me saying ‘I don’t give a f***,’ different from Patrick Henry saying ‘Give me liberty or give me death?’ What makes my freedom any different than Bosnians or who ever [America] wants to fight for this year? They should give money to the ghetto.

- Tupac

89. Until it happened, I really did believe that no Black person would ever shoot me. I believed that I didn’t have to fear my own community, You know, I was like I represent them. I’m their ambassador to the world, they will never do me wrong.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

91. 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

92. I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

- Tupac

93. 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

94. They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor.

- Tupac

95. It don’t stop ’til the casket drop.

- Tupac

96. If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.

- Tupac

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

- Tupac

98. I’ve been shot five times but I’m still breathing, living proof there a God if you need a reason.

- Tupac