Tupac Shakur

"Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy."

- Tupac Shakur

"A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once."

- Tupac Shakur

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even 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 fuck on."

- Tupac Shakur

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender."

- Tupac Shakur

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."

- Tupac Shakur

"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 Shakur

"I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."

- Tupac Shakur

"There's gon' be some stuff you gon' seethat's gon' 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. Remember that."

- Tupac Shakur

"They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor."

- Tupac Shakur

"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 Shakur

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real."

- Tupac Shakur

"If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."

- 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

"Only God Can Judge Me. 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."

- Tupac Shakur

"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes."

- Tupac Shakur

"In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that."

- Tupac Shakur

"Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action."

- Tupac Shakur

"I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me."

- Tupac Shakur

"We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin’, everybody kissin’ ass to go to heaven ain’t goin’."

- Tupac Shakur

"The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it’s planted in stone."

- Tupac Shakur

"All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."

- Tupac Shakur

"So no matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it."

- Tupac Shakur

"Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn’t mean you can’t grow."

- Tupac Shakur

"Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it."

- Tupac Shakur

"I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle. I make mistakes but learn from every one."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everytime I speak, I want the truth to come out. Everytime I speak I want a shiver."

- Tupac Shakur

"People die but legends live forever."

- Tupac Shakur

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

- 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

"Keep ya head up."

- Tupac Shakur

"Before you ask why someone hates you, ask yourself why you give a fuck."

- Tupac Shakur

"Its fu**** up how people get judged for being real, and how people get loved for being fake."

- Tupac Shakur

"You gotta be able to smile through the bullshit."

- Tupac Shakur

"Only God can judge me."

- Tupac Shakur

"Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit."

- Tupac Shakur

"Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being the one behind the gun."

- Tupac Shakur

"It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down."

- Tupac Shakur

"Guard your heart. Protect your dreams, and be mindful of your actions."

- Tupac Shakur

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even 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 on."

- 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

"Every corner of the hood holds a story – a lament, a love ballad, a victory cry."

- Tupac Shakur

"The hood made me, but it doesn’t define me."

- Tupac Shakur

"Loyalty is the foundation upon which genuine brotherhood is built."

- Tupac Shakur

"Real eyes realize real lies."

- Tupac Shakur

"If you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for."

- Tupac Shakur

"Every day above ground is another chance to face the struggle."

- Tupac Shakur

"Life’s a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference."

- Tupac Shakur

"Ambition is crucial. You got to have it to keep the next man sharp. To keep your self-esteem intact."

- Tupac Shakur

"Ain’t a woman alive who could take my mama’s place."

- Tupac Shakur

"Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."

- Tupac Shakur

"They have money for war but can't feed the poor."

- Tupac Shakur

"Should I just stop trying and give up? But then, that's exactly what they're waiting for me to do."

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"Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead."

- Tupac Shakur

"Life is a wheel of fortune and it's my turn to spin it."

- Tupac Shakur

"You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath, and I'm still breathing so it's still on."

- Tupac Shakur

"I hate the man in the mirror 'cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer."

- Tupac Shakur

"One thing we all adore, something worth dying for, nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searchin’ for fortune and fame."

- Tupac Shakur

"This fast life soon shatters, 'cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter."

- Tupac Shakur

"Always do your best, don’t let the pressure make you panic."

- Tupac Shakur

"Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."

- Tupac Shakur

"The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it's planted in stone."

- Tupac Shakur

"Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow."

- Tupac Shakur

"We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other."

- Tupac Shakur

"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

"All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."

- Tupac Shakur

"Our future is our confidence and self-esteem."

- Tupac Shakur

"I make mistakes but learn from every one."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everybody's at war with different things. I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."

- Tupac Shakur

"When times are dim, say as I say, 'When there's a will, there's a way!'"

- Tupac Shakur

"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."

- Tupac Shakur

"No matter how hard it gets, stick your chest out, keep ya' head up and handle it."

- Tupac Shakur

"We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear."

- Tupac Shakur

"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."

- Tupac Shakur

"There's gonna be some stuff you gonna 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."

- Tupac Shakur

"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 Shakur

"To all the seeds that follow me, protect your essence. Born with less, but you still precious."

- Tupac Shakur

"You gotta be able to smile through all this bulls--t. Remember that."

- Tupac Shakur

"Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes."

- Tupac Shakur

"The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."

- Tupac Shakur

"If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the 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."

- Tupac Shakur

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."

- Tupac Shakur

"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"

- Tupac Shakur

"There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' 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. Remember that."

- Tupac Shakur

"You're right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck."

- Tupac Shakur

"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 dont 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 Shakur

"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 Shakur

"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 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

"Only God Can Judge Me 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 "

- Tupac Shakur

"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 Shakur

"During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams"

- Tupac Shakur

"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

"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, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how"

- Tupac Shakur

"There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated"

- Tupac Shakur

"If they take half the buildings that they use to praise God and give it to the motherf--kers who need God we'd be 'aight."

- Tupac Shakur

"I'm kind of schizophrenic, I'm in this shit to win it.... ‘Cause life's a Wheel of Fortune, here's my chance to spin it."

- Tupac Shakur

"2Pac cares if don't nobody else care."

- Tupac Shakur

"I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward."

- Tupac Shakur

"My aim is to spread more smiles than tears."

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"I WANNA BE THE REALIST ARTIST EVER. I want everybody to talk about Tupac: He was the realist artist ever, never sold out, always stayed the same, couldn't stop him, they couldn't change him."

- Tupac Shakur

"Through every dog night there's a brighter day, so no matter how hard it gets stick your chest out keep your head up and handle it."

- Tupac Shakur

"If you gonna do it, do it. If you want it pursue it."

- Tupac Shakur

"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."

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