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Name: Tupac Amaru Shakur
Born: June 16, 1971
Died: September 13, 1996
Fact: “The Greatest Of All Times”
Tupac Amaru Shakur's Most Crucial Words The People
"I'm not saying i'm gonna change the world... but i guarantee to spark the brain that will
change the world" - Tupac
“They got money for the war but can‟t feed the poor.” - Tupac
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months over-analyzing a situation; trying to
put the pieces together, justifying what could‟ve, would‟ve happened…or you can just leave
the pieces on the floor and move the f*** on.” - Tupac
“The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While
they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out,
they‟re in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?” -
Tupac
“There‟s no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are
appreciated.” [Raps about his mother on his song titled, 'Dear Mama'] - Tupac
“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go
to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.” -
Tupac
“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn‟t glorify any image. My music
is spiritual when you listen to it. It‟s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.” -
Tupac
“Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war
of all because we all die in the end, no matter how hard we fight.” - Tupac
“Unconditional love. Talking bout the stuff that don‟t wear off, it don‟t fade. It‟ll last for all
these crazy days, these crazy nights. Whether you wrong or you right, I‟ma still love you, still
feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with
unconditional love.” - Tupac
“Many dreams are what we had and plenty wishes.” -Tupac
"Death is not the greatest loss in life, the greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive,
Never Surrender" - Tupac
"Everybody's at war with so many things, I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.." -
Tupac
"There's gon' be some stuff you see that's gonna make it hard to smile in the future. But
through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of
humor, you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit" - Tupac
"I don't see myself being special, I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next
man. People look to me to do things for" - Tupac
“My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated.” - Tupac
“My mama always used to tell me: If you can‟t find something to live for, you best find
something to die for.” - Tupac
“You know it‟s funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can‟t feed the
poor.” - Tupac
“Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don‟t want it if it‟s that easy” - Tupac
“I don‟t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” -Tupac
“I‟d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.” - Tupac
“Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?” -Tupac
“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams” - Tupac
“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.” -Tupac
“All I‟m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle
that they gave me.” -Tupac
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.” -Tupac
“I‟ll probably be punished for hard living.” - Tupac
“I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We‟re made to grow. You either
evolve or you disappear.” - Tupac
“Let the Lord judge the criminals.” - Tupac
“Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord
care?” - Tupac
“It‟s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.” -
Tupac
“I think I‟m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it‟s authority that I
respect.” - Tupac
“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.” - Tupac
“Don‟t change on me. Don‟t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.” -Tupac
“I don‟t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next
man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.” -Tupac
“I‟m 23 years old. I might just be my mother‟s child, but in all reality, I‟m everybody‟s child.
Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.” -Tupac
“With all my fans I got a family again.” -Tupac
“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.” -Tupac
“In my mind I‟m a blind man doing time.” -Tupac
“We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.” -Tupac
“There‟s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.” -Tupac
“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys‟s
home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” -Tupac
“I just don‟t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never
had that in my life.” -Tupac
“What I learned in jail is that I can‟t change. I can‟t live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is
the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.” -Tupac
“Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he‟s not down for his homeboys, I don‟t
wanna be a part of him or around him.” -Tupac
“I am society‟s child. This is how they made me and now I‟m sayin‟ what‟s on my mind and
they don‟t want that. This is what you made me, America.” -Tupac
“Don‟t believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.” -Tupac
“Life‟s a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a
difference.” -Tupac
“God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No
one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help
me.. except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me,
except God, So when I‟m asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other
name, except God.” -Tupac
“If you let a person talk long enough you‟ll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak
once.” -Tupac
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there‟s
a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up....
and handle it.” -Tupac
“God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.” -Tupac
“I‟m not perfect. But I‟ll always be real” -Tupac
“Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it.”
“Don‟t look back unless it‟s a good view.” -Tupac
“You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.” -Tupac
“Why am I dying to live if I‟m just living to die.” -Tupac
“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true
to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own
souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find
my soul.” -Tupac
“Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.” -Tupac
“My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It‟s an eternal
journey.” -Tupac
“My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It‟s an eternal
journey.” -Tupac
“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.” -Tupac
“You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.” -Tupac
“I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and
feed my family.” -Tupac
“Don‟t leave this world without giving it your all.” -Tupac
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.” -
Tupac
“A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.” -Tupac
“Fear no man but only God” -Tupac
“Play the game, never let the game play you.” -Tupac
“For every single dark night there is a brighter day. -Tupac
“Never surrender, it‟s all about the faith you got: don‟t ever stop, just push it till you hit the
top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can
never fall.” -Tupac
“If you could walk a mile in my shoes you‟d be crazy too.” -Tupac
“Don‟t leave this world without giving it your all.” -Tupac
“Play the game, never let the game play you.” -Tupac
“I truly believe I‟ve been blessed by God, and God walks with me.” -Tupac
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.” -Tupac
“Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!” -Tupac
“The realest people don‟t have a lot of friends.” -Tupac
“Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war
of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight.” -Tupac
“We don‟t need no more rappers, we don‟t need no more basketball players, no more
football players. We need more thinkers. We need more scientists. We need more managers.
We need more mathematicians. We need more teachers. We need more people who care; you
know what I‟m saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that, we
don‟t need any more entertainers.” -Tupac
“Perspective, You start looking at things differently, like everything‟s not so important. You
don‟t take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get
that chance. -Tupac
“They Have Money For War But Can‟t Feed The Poor.” -Tupac
“It‟s time we stop worrying, and get angry you know? But not angry and pick up a gun, but
angry and open our minds.” -Tupac
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” -Tupac
“Tomorrow comes after the dark.” -Tupac
“When I say I‟m a thug, I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean
the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed
and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he‟s a thug. Cuz he
overcame all the obstacles.” -Tupac
“No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.” -Tupac
“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave
didn‟t mean nothing when it came to fear.” -Tupac
“All the Hennessy and weed can‟t hide, the pain i feel inside, it‟s like I‟m living just to die.” -
Tupac
“Don‟t leave this world without giving it your all.” -Tupac
“I truly believe I‟ve been blessed by God, and God walks with me.” -Tupac
“If you don‟t know me, don‟t judge me.” -Tupac
“But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build a new, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and
ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I
fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.” -Tupac
“Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, and make the world change.” -Tupac
“Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.” -Tupac
“My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.” -Tupac
“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
“Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are
fake.” -Tupac
“No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of
jealousy, envy and greed.” -Tupac
“Take ones adversity. Learn from their misfortune
Learn from their pain. Believe in something
Believe in yourself. Turn adversity into ambition
Now blossom into wealth.” -Tupac
“Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.” -Tupac
“How many caskets can we witness before we see it‟s hard to live this life without God, so
we must ask forgiveness?” -Tupac
“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
“The trick is to never lose hope!” -Tupac
“Sometimes when I‟m alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and
warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult
to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do
you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would
rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And
sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.” -Tupac
“Study your lessons, don‟t settle for less.” -Tupac
“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation
comes action, Struggling and striving, that‟s how the dough come.” -Tupac
“Evil‟s lurking, I can see him smirking.” -Tupac
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.” -Tupac
“Heaven ain‟t hard to find; all you gotta do is look.” -Tupac
“Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.” -Tupac
“We are being wiped off the face of this earth at an extremely alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact that we are not fighting back.” -Tupac
“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 don‟t 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
“The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it‟s planted in stone.” -Tupac
“We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to
heaven aint goin.” -Tupac
“Dear Mama, don‟t cry, your baby boy‟s doing good, Tell the homies I‟m in heaven, and they
ain‟t got hoods. Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook, Dripping
peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke.” -Tupac
“My only fear of death is reincarnation.” -Tupac
“I‟d love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that‟s the way it is.” -
Tupac
“Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.” -Tupac
“I‟m not saying I‟m going to rule the world, I‟m going to change the world. But I guarantee I
will spark the brain that will change the world. And that‟s our job. It‟s to spark somebody
else watching us. We might not be the one, but let‟s not be selfish. And because we‟re not
going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don‟t know how to
change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody‟s going to
clean it up!” -Tupac
“There‟s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me” -Tupac
“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams” -Tupac
“I didn‟t get that power from gunz..coz there‟s no gunz in jail..I got that power from books
and from thinking and strategizing...... That‟s what I want little niggaz to see.” -Tupac
“We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but it‟s time to be like them, as
strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don‟t
want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I
do. I say what‟s on my mind.” -Tupac
“I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.” -Tupac
“Don‟t live to fight, fight to live.” -Tupac
“In a position to make a difference, politicians and hypocrites they don‟t wanna listen.” -
Tupac
“Can‟t close my eyes cause all I see is terror
I hate the man in the mirror. Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer.” -Tupac
“I find any great man, black or white, I‟m going to study him, learn him so he can‟t be great
to me no more.” -Tupac
“You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.” -
Tupac
“I gotta big mouth, I can‟t help it, I talk from my heart, I‟m real, whatever comes comes. But
my controversy problem, it‟s not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try
to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that
haven‟t been travelled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger.” -
Tupac
“This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those
who choose to accept simplicity.” -Tupac
“We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it‟s so sad." Why is it sad?
He‟s away from all of this bad stuff that‟s here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he‟s just
somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he‟s an angel... or he‟s a spirit somewhere. What is so
bad about that?” -Tupac
“Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I‟m not the thief who
grabs your purse. I‟m not the guy who jacks your car. I‟m not down with people who steal
and hurt others. I‟m just a brother who fights back. I‟m not some violent closet psycho. I‟ve
got a job. I‟m an artist.” -Tupac
I think I‟m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it‟s authority that I
respect.” -Tupac
“Here‟s a message to the new born(s), waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can
achieve. Just look at me, against all odds though life is hard, we carry on, living in the
projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born
with less, but you still precious.” -Tupac
“You have to work from one point to go to another. So I admire work ethic, I think it should
be reinforced through our neighborhoods, that everybody should work hard, practice makes
perfect, you have to be diligent with what you want, you have to apply yourself, you have to
motivate your self. You have to do for self by yourself, and then you can do things for other
people. That‟s what I had to do, I had to do for self.” -Tupac
“Forgive but don‟t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain‟t nothing,
don‟t believe him. And if he can‟t learn to love you, you should leave him.” -Tupac
“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
“I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?” -
Tupac
“My music is not for everyone. It‟s only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It‟s
not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it‟s spiritual. My music is spiritual. It‟s
like Negro spirituals; except for the fact that I‟m not saying & We shall Overcome I‟m saying
that we are overcome.” -Tupac
“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other” -Tupac
“Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there
aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to
live, If I am just living to die?” -Tupac
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.” -Tupac
“I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still
preserve my soul.” -Tupac
“Once people take time to find out who I really am you‟d be surprised.” -Tupac
“You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies...
And now I‟m like a major threat, Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.”
-Tupac
“It‟s like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds
of scratches and marks, you ain‟t gonna say, Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the
rose that grew from the concrete, You‟re gonna be like, Damn, a rose grew from the
concrete?” -Tupac
“I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one,
And when it‟s said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don‟t stress,
Never forget, that God isn‟t finished with me yet.” -Tupac
“This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams
matter.” -Tupac
“I am society‟s child. This is how they made me and now I‟m sayin‟ what‟s on my mind and
they don‟t want that. This is what you made, America.” -Tupac
“All I‟m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle
that they gave me.” -Tupac
“The only thing that can kill me is death, that‟s the only thing that can ever stop me, is death,
and even then my music will live forever.” -Tupac
“The only thing that can kill me is death, that‟s the only thing that can ever stop me, is death,
and even then my music will live forever.” -Tupac
“You never know what‟s going on in somebody‟s mind. There‟s a lot of pressure on someone
growing up. You have to watch it.” -Tupac
“I feel that what was done in the dark will come to light. There are secrets everybody‟s gonna
find out about.” -Tupac
“I‟d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.” -Tupac
“I didn‟t create thug life, I diagnosed it.” -Tupac
“I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and
Juliet. That‟s some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who
falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So
they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff.” -Tupac
“In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.” -Tupac
“If you‟re not dark inside and you come to this world, it‟S turn you dark... and if you really
have Sunshine inside you, it‟s not good to play in the dark. It‟s just gonna extinguish your
fire.” -Tupac
“If you can make it through the night, there‟s a brighter day.
Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to
everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.” -Tupac
“But please don‟t cry, dry your eyes, never let up
Forgive but don‟t forget, girl keep your head up.” -Tupac
“The american dream wasn‟t meant for me, cause lady liberty‟s a hypocrite she lied to me,
promised me freedom, education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now
look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold.” -
Tupac
“I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.” -Tupac
“Can‟t sleep „cause all the dirt make my heart hurt.” -Tupac
“Gangsta Rap is dead. I‟ve moved on. And the raps that I‟m rappin to my community
shouldn‟t be filled with rage? They shouldn‟t be filled with same atrocities that they gave
me? The media they don‟t talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems
foreign because there‟s no one else talking about it.” -Tupac
“I was raised in this society so you can‟t expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what
Ima do.” -Tupac
“If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from
concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at
just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid
grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make
you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am
leaning crooked to the side, u can‟t even see that I‟ve come up from out of that.” -Tupac
“The only time I have problems is when I sleep.” -Tupac
“Dying on the inside, but outside you‟re looking fearless” -Tupac
“If we‟re all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If
you see everybody dying because of what you‟re saying, it don‟t matter that you didn‟t make
them die, it just matters that you didn‟t save them.” -Tupac
“I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have
been politically correct but I‟ve reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the
brutal honesty in the rap.” -Tupac
“That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.” -Tupac
“So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda
tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama‟s eyes, no one knows my
struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it‟s hard to carry on when no one loves you.”
-Tupac
“When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain
magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak
You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls solely
the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, there‟s only me alone, to
deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are
you expected to do, when your only hero falls.” -Tupac
“I‟m the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get
as many people looking as possible.” -Tupac
“I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I cannot live in a
jail cell. That‟s why I don‟t rob people and stick up people.”-Tupac
“I just don‟t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never
had that in my life.” -Tupac
“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn‟t glorify any image. My music
is spiritual when you listen to it. It‟s all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.” -
Tupac
“Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there‟s much
more to life than poverty.” -Tupac
“I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility,
because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn‟t
buy my records if my records weren‟t good. I‟m being who i am in the record.” -Tupac
“The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom. They regret to see you, set, but it is time,
for the moon” -Tupac
“I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn‟t fit in. Because I
was from everywhere, I didn‟t have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to
a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the
ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don‟t fit in no matter what. If they
push you out of the hood and the White people‟s world, that‟s criminal...Hell, I felt like my
could be destroyed at any moment.” -Tupac
“Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.” -Tupac
“My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don‟t want to dance.
We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.” -Tupac
“Don‟t support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL.” -Tupac
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you
trusted? That‟s bad.” -Tupac
“We are weak, please let us in. We‟re week, please let us in." After about a week the song is
gonna change to, "We‟re hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it‟s like "Give
me some of the food! I‟m breakin down the door." After a year it‟s like, "I‟m pickin‟ the
lock, comin‟ through the door blastin." It‟s like, "I‟m hungry.” -Tupac
“Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be
more than just a rap musician.” -Tupac
When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it‟s clear I will always be
the same until the end of time.” -Tupac
“I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn
4 affection.” -Tupac
“God come save the youth, Ain‟t nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the
life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand.” -
Tupac
“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We‟re made to grow. You
either evolve or you disappear.” -Tupac
“I don‟t know how to change the world but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out
here, somebody gon‟ clean it up.” -Tupac
“I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead
of defenseless, having power.” -Tupac
“I don‟t understand how people can stand next to you one year, and next year, they cannot.
They‟re going crazy, screaming. They can‟t take it that you‟re there. But last year I was in the
same club, walking around, lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn‟t get a date or a dance. I was
too skinny, too something, and now, "He‟s just adorable. He‟s just, oh!” -Tupac
“I‟m used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never
close my eyes. It‟s horrible.” -Tupac
“Be grateful for blessings, Don‟t ever change, keep your essence.
The power is in the people and politics we address.” -Tupac
“Even though I‟m marked for death, I‟ma spark till my last breath.” -Tupac
“Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don‟t take a piece out of
my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I‟m about because you know better
than that.” -Tupac
“Went to church but don‟t understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these
commandments, the world is scandalous.” -Tupac
“With all this extra stressin. The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath
When will I finally get to rest? Through this suppression. they punish the people that‟s asking
questions. And those that possess steal from the ones without possessions. The message I
stress: to make it stop study your lessons Don‟t settle for less - even the genius ask questions
Be grateful for blessings. Don‟t ever change, keep your essence
The power is in the people and politics we address.” -Tupac
“Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the
deeper the roots.” -Tupac
“I‟m 100 percent original, and that‟s what got me here. My rap music is more understandable,
slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.” -Tupac
“Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don‟t, then we‟ll have a race of
babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.” -Tupac
“I guarantee if people keep.... supporting me....Just buying my records, goin to my concerts,
just supporting me..I‟ma keep givin‟ money....Like Makaveli, every time it go platinum, I‟m
putting money up for community centers.” -Tupac
(Tupac would always give back to the community)
“I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until
he was dead. Now it‟s worth millions.” -Tupac
“With all my fans I got a family again.” -Tupac
“Maybe in time you‟ll understand only God can save us.” -Tupac
”Ain‟t a woman alive that could take my mama‟s place.” -Tupac
“I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they
sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.” -Tupac
“It ain‟t about black or white cause we‟re human.” -Tupac
“I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other” –
Tupac
“When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.” -
Tupac
“I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you
trusted? That‟s bad.” - Tupac
“What I learned in jail is that I can‟t change. I can‟t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is
the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.” - Tupac
“I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one.
And when it‟s said and done, I bet this brother be a better one. If I upset you don‟t stress;
never forget, that God isn‟t finished with me yet.” - Tupac
"My mama always used to tell me: „if you can‟t find somethin‟ to live for, you best find
somethin‟ to die for." - Tupac
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‘Jamal Dewar’ Better known as ‘Capital STEEZ’, He was born
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