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 Shakur
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur
Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
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 believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Tupac Shakur
There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac Shakur
In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.
Tupac Shakur
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Tupac Shakur
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
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.
Tupac Shakur
Thug Life to me is dead.
Tupac Shakur
We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tupac Shakur
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
With all my fans I got a family again.
Tupac Shakur
Let the Lord judge the criminals.
Tupac Shakur
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur
America wants its respect.
Tupac Shakur
Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
Tupac Shakur
I’m a reflection of the community.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
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.
Tupac Shakur
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
I’ll probably be punished for hard living.
Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur
It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur
