Tupac Shakur quotes

„I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven“

—  Tupac Shakur

„I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Only God can judge me now“

—  Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Variant: Only God can judge me.
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

„If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Don't live to fight, fight to live.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

„I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

„There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

„Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one“

—  Tupac Shakur

„They got money for wars but they can’t feed the poor. “

—  Tupac Shakur

„fear no man but only God“

—  Tupac Shakur

„During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„I can't explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.“

—  Tupac Shakur

1990s, Interview on the set of Gang Related (1996)

„I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection“

—  Tupac Shakur