Quotes by Tupac Shakur

• It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
• It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
• Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
• My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
• If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
• There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
• In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
• Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
• If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
• The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
• I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
• Thug Life to me is dead.
• We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
• 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.
• When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.
• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
• 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.
• With all my fans I got a family again.
• Let the Lord judge the criminals.
• All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
• America wants its respect.
• Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
• 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.
• I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
• I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
• I'm a reflection of the community.
• I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
• I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
• I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
• 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.
• I'll probably be punished for hard living.
• 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.
• I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
• It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
• For every dark night, there's a brighter day.
• For every dark night, there is a brighter day.