Tupac Shakur quotes

„I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.“

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Variant: My Mama used to tell me if u can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

„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

„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'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)

„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

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„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

„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 believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies“

—  Tupac Shakur

„You're right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't care.“

—  Tupac Shakur

„Don't live to fight, fight to live.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

„Fear no man but only God“

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„The reason I sell 6 million records, the reason I could go to jail and come out without a scratch, the reason I can walk around, the reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly in to my face and find my soul, it's there, it's not sold, i didn't sell it, it's still within me, I still feel it, my heart is still connected to my body.“

—  Tupac Shakur

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

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

—  Tupac Shakur