Tupac Shakur

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.

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.

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

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

Of course I'm going to say "I'm a thug" that's because I came from the GUTTER and I'm still HERE!

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

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.

i will live by the gun and die by the gun

You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

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

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

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?

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

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

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