Tupac Shakur Quotes - Page 9

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

It aint about black or white cause we`re human

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.

Don't cry through your dispair.

Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.

A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.

I'd be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn't happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.

Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop.

Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

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.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.