Tupac Shakur quotes are very famous not only in the hip-hop music industry but also in other categories. He was one of the most influential rappers in the music world.
Tupac Shakur was born on 16th June 1971 and passed away on 13th September 1996. He is considered one of the greatest artists of all time because of his unique and bold lyrics as well as singing style. More than 75 million records were sold that was made him one of the best-selling artists of all time (2007).
Tupac quotes are so powerful that cover every situation of our life. You can find inspiring and motivational words, relationship lines, the question to God, deep love sayings, change in life, music, people, etc.
Although he died only at his 25 years of age 2pac quotes are still in people’s minds and mouth. There are many popular songs such as ‘Hail Mary’ the Don Killuminati: The 7-day theory, ‘Changes’ Greatest hits, ‘Brenda’s Got A Baby’ 2pacalypse now, etc. that make people inspired.
Here I have filled the bucket with the most popular 107 Tupac Shakur quotes that will make you think deeply about life. If you read attentively you can find many life-changing motivational words.
Famous Tupac Shakur quotes about life
1. “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.”
2. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.”
3. “Do everything you can to make it around the system, over the system, or out the system.”
4. “My life was lived through falling rain, so call on me if there be pain.”
5. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”
6. “Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.”
7. “People die but legends live forever.”
8. “Sometimes life can be a heavy load.”
9. “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.”
10. “Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.”
Tupac Shakur quotes on reality and dream
11. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”
12. “Many dreams are what we had and plenty wishes.”
13. “The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”
14. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
15. “This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.”
16. “The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.”
17. “It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other.”
18. “They got money for the war but can’t feed the poor.”
19. “Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”
Tupac Shakur quotes about change
20. “Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”
21. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”
22. “We were young and we were dumb, but we had a heart.”
23. “If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.”
24. “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.”
25. “You gotta make a change. You see the old way wasn’t working so it’s on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.”
Thoughtful and meaningful Tupac Shakur quotes
26. “Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.”
27. “Even warriors put their spears down on Sundays.”
28. “Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close, watch your homies.”
29. “Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
30. “Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”
31. “Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the b*llsh*t.”
32. “Recollect your thoughts, don’t get caught up in the mix.”
33. “One thing we all adore, something worth dying for, nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searchin’ for fortune and fame.”
34. “We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.”
35. “Even the genius ask questions.”
36. “Don’t live to fight, fight to live.”
37. “What people do for the struggle of power is madness.”
38. “Every day, I’m standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in; We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, it’s like…”
39. “Things will never be the same, that’s just the way it is.”
40. “Pay no mind to those who talk behing your back, it simply means that you are 2 steps ahead.”
41. “A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.”
42. “Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?”
Tupac Shakur quotes about death and fear
43. “We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.”
44. “Don’t leave this world without giving it your all.”
45. “I know death follows me, but I murder him first.”
46. “I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.”
47. “A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.”
48. “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.”
49. “Thug Life to me is dead.”
Awesome Tupac Shakur quotes about himself
50. “I’m a reflection of the community.”
51. “I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.”
52. “I’ll probably be punished for hard living.”
53. “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.”
54. “I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.”
55. “If I was white, I would be like John Wayne. I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play. Somebody who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, from poverty.”
56. “I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad.”
57. “Of course I’m going to say “I’m a thug,” that’s because I came from the gutter and I’m still here!”
58. “With all my fans I got a family again.”
59. “The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”
60. “I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable.”
61. “I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.”
62. “I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward.”
63. “You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath and I’m still breathing so it’s still on.”
64. “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.”
65. “I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.”
66. “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.”
67. “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.”
68. “Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers.”
69. “All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.”
70. “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.”
71. “When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm-peace, and 3 minutes after that, it was on.”
72. “I would rather be stricken blind, than to live without expression of mind.”
73. “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.”
74. “You’re right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don’t give a fuck.”
2pac quotes about moving on
75. “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 fail.”
76. “That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don’t see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life.”
77. “I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up and handle it.”
78. “Should I just stop trying and give up? But then, that’s exactly what they’re waiting for me to do.”
79. “Always do your best, don’t let the pressure make you panic.”
80. “Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn’t mean you can’t grow.”
81. “My mama always used to tell me: ‘if you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.”
82. “Even though you’re fed up, you gotta keep your head up.”
Tupac Shakur quotes about God
83. “Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?”
84. “Only God can judge me.”
85. “It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
86. “We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don’t ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.”
87. “I shall not fear man but God, though I walk through the valley of death.”
88. “Let the Lord Judge the criminals.”
89. “If they take half the buildings that they use to praise God and give it to the motherfuckers who need God we’d be ‘alright.”
90. “If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.”
91. “I’ve been shot five times but I’m still breathing, living proof there a God if you need a reason.”
92. “I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”
2pac quotes about love
93. “You can never just be friends with someone you fall in love with.”
94. “Always falling too deep in a relationship, always end up being the one that’s hurt the most.”
95. “One day I’m gonna bust, blow up on this society. Why did you lie to me? I couldn’t find a trace of equality.”
96. “No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.”
97. “Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.”
98. “I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
99. “I’m not saying girls are perfect cause we all know that’s not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you?”
100. “I’m done talking since you’re not listening, continue to hang out with them nothing ass bitches, then!”
101. “Unconditional love. Talking about 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’m still love you, still feel you, still there for you. No matter what, you will always be in my heart with unconditional love.”
102. “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 Shakur quotes on music
103. “Hip Hop when it started it was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. Now it seems like I was starting to get caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about. As long as the music has the true to the heart soul it can be hip hop. As long it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.”
104. “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.”
105. “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.”
106. “If we really are saying that rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you are saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die. It just matters that you didn’t save them.”
107. “When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.”
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