Tupac Shakur: Trending quotes (page 3)

“The main thing for us to remember is that, the same crime element that white people are scared of, black people are scared of. The same crime element that white people fear, black people fear. So we defend our self from the same crime element that they are scared of, you know what I'm saying, while they are waiting for legislations to pass and everything, we're next door to the killer, we're next door to him you know. Because we up in the projects where it's 80 niggas in the building. All them killers that they letting out, they're right there in that building. Just because we're black we get along with the killers or something? We get along with rapist's because we're black and from the same hood? What is that? We need protection too.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

Self-confidence , Fear , People , Waiting

“I'm known as a survivor now, I hope so, for the jail thing, bullets and everything, controversies and everything, I hope so. And I want to be in the future known as somebody. You know I want people to be talking about me like you know: "remember when he was real bad, remember when Tupac was real bad". You know what I mean, they do that about a lot of actors now, like John Travolta I read stories like "remember you were wild."”

Tupac Shakur

And all these other people, and now they're like sweet hearts. We all should get that chance, I just want my chance.
1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

Reading , Bad luck , Future , People

“Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Game , People

“All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Details magazine interview (Spring 1996)

World , Way , Change

“You claim to be a player, but I fucked your wife.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, "Hit 'Em Up" (1996)

“I'm a reflection of the community. ”

Tupac Shakur

Communication

“What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

Youth

“I know how it's gonna be when I die. It's going to be no noise, you ain't going to hear people screaming. I'mma fade out.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, MTV interview with Tabitha Soren (1995)

People

“My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.”

Tupac Shakur

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

School , Law

“But in my homeboys' high school, it's not like that. They don't have trips to go see this Broadway play, they don't read things we read. They didn't know when I was like: "Yo, Shakespeare's dope."”

Tupac Shakur

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

School , Reading

“It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

Time

“Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Business

“Killing ain't fair, but somebody's got to do it.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, "Hit 'Em Up" (1996)

“The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

“I believe honestly that I can talk. I believe that I have the ability to reason, I have logic, I have compassion, I have understanding. If we talk there's no problem you know what I'm saying. But that's not what happened. People used what they heard in media and that's how they come at me, and then you know we got a clash.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

People , Understanding , Problem

“Measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.”

Tupac Shakur

Posthumous attributions, Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

Life

“Best Of 2Pac Vol 1:Thug and Vol 2:Life”

Tupac Shakur

2007
Discography

Life

“Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.”

Tupac Shakur

"Holla If Ya Hear Me" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/hollaifyahearme.html (1993).
1990s

Truth , Youth

“Now if we do wanna live the thug life and the gangsta' life and all that, OK, so stop being cowards and let's have a revolution. But we don't wanna do that, dudes just wanna live "character", they wanna be "cartoons", but if they really wanted to do something, they was that tuff, alright, let's start our own country, let's start a revolution, let's get outta' here, let's do something. But they don't wanna do that, they wanna pimp our communities and portray this image that they know we all can't survive and make, and that's what I saw.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Life , Communication , Country

“It's not just about you taking care of "your" child. It's about you taking care of these children.”

Tupac Shakur

1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)

Children