“You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.”

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

“Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.”

“Michael Brown was a thug.”

“A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.”

“The only way I've been practicing my whole life, to live my life is to be responsible for what I do. I don't know how to be responsible for what every black male did, I don't know. And yes, I am gonna say that I'm a thug, that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here! I'm not saying I'm a thug because I wanna rob you or rape people and things. I'm a business man, I mean, you know I'm a business man because you find me at my places of business.”

“It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest.”

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

“People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.”

“You can’t play the role of thug all over the galaxy and not store up in the subconscious a fine line of private fears and remembered enemies.”