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

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„fear no man but only God“

—  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)

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

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  Tupac Shakur

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

—  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

Variante: 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

„If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.“

—  Tupac Shakur

Variante: For every dark night, there's a brighter day.

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„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

„Where There is a will
there is a will
to search and discover
a better day

Where a positive heart
is all you need
to rise beyond
and succeed

Where young minds grow
and respect each other
based on their deeds
and not their color

when times are dim
say as I say
"Where there's a will
there's a way!“

—  Tupac Shakur, livre The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

„Don't live to fight, fight to live.“

—  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

„Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies“

—  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)

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

—  Tupac Shakur

„I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.“

—  Tupac Shakur