Tupac Shakur's Quotes
Born: 1971-06-16
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Tupac Shakur
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
Tags: Character, Rap, YourselfWhat 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.
Tags: Change, Learned, LifeI 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.
Tags: Business, Life, MusicIf 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.
Tags: Family, Home, MoneyMy mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Tags: Best, Die, TellIt'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.
Tags: Fun, Game, LifeAll I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tags: Dirty, Good, TryingIt seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tags: Happens, Seems, TimeI 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.
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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tags: Authority, Leader, RespectI would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tags: Bad, Cold, RatherDon't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tags: Change, Forever, UnlessI'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.
Tags: Mother, Reality, SocietyIt's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tags: God, Judge, StruggleSomebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Tags: Care, Help, HereI'm a reflection of the community.
Tags: Community, ReflectionI just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tags: Deal, Giving, LifeI never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tags: Anybody, Committed, Honorable