Tupac Shakur Quotes - Page 7

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don't wanna listen.

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

I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?

Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.

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

I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

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 people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist.

Only God Can Judge Me 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

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

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.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

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

Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama's titty.

Misplaced hate makes disgrace the races.

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.