Tupac Shakur Quotes - Page 18

Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

America wants its respect.

And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.

If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.

the evil the u are the brighter u will get

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.

I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.

Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.

I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.

Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.

They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.

I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.

The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.

It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack