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 Shakur
Thug Life to me is dead.
– Tupac Shakur
There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
– Tupac Shakur
The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
– Tupac Shakur
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
– 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
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.
– Tupac Shakur
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
– Tupac Shakur
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
– Tupac Shakur
In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
– Tupac Shakur
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
– Tupac Shakur
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.
– Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
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 Shakur
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
– Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
– Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
– Tupac Shakur
America wants its respect.
– Tupac Shakur
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.