Tupac Quotes

“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, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Fear is stronger than love”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: 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, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“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 Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“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.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“How could Reagan live in a White
House, which has a lot of rooms,and there be homelessness? And he's talking about helping. I don't believe that there is anyone that is going hungry in America simply by reason of denial or lack of ability to feed them. It is by people not knowing where or how to get this help. Why can't he take people off the street and put them in his White House? Then he'll have people from the streets to help him with his ideas. Not helpless! Homeless! Not helpless They haven't been homeless forever.They've done things in society.The White House would be tainted because he doesn't want to get dirty.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Niggers was the ones on the rope,
hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“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 Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Don't live to fight, fight to live.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“My inspiration for writing music is like Don McLean did when he did "American Pie" or "Vincent". Lorraine Hansberry with "A Raisin in the Sun". Like Shakespeare when he does his thing, like deep stories, raw human needs.

I'm trying to think of a good analogy. It's like, you've got the Vietnam War, and because you had reporters showing us pictures of the war at home, that's what made the war end, or that shit would have lasted longer. If no one knew what was going on we would have thought they were just dying valiantly in some beautiful way. But because we saw the horror, that's what made us stop the war.

So I thought, that's what I'm going to do as an artist, as a rapper. I'm gonna show the most graphic details of what I see in my community and hopefully they'll stop it quick.

I've seen all of that-- the crack babies, what we had to go through, losing everything, being poor, and getting beat down. All of that. Being the person I am, I said no no no no. I'm changing this.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996

“Dr Dre All Day”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection 1971-1996