Tupac Shakur Quotes - Page 14

Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don’t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I’m about because you know better than that.

Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain't no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.

And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.

Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

People die and people cry people want me dead.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

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

It don't stop 'til the casket drop.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

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

Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

Temperature is as far as the heat goes, people are haters cos im doing something good. Hate me dont hate the hood. It made me strong, you wouldn't last that long.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots