Tupac Shakur Quotes

American rap artist Tupac Shakur had many aces up his sleeve. He was a producer, rap artist, poet, and activist, all rolled into one. Tupac Shakur led a tumultuous life, albeit a short one. Tupac sold over seventy-five million albums to date, thus becoming the all-time highest selling rap artist. Even after his death, Tupac Shakur continues to hold records in the music business that are unmatchable. Learn more about the life of this great music artist through his quotes.

• 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.
  
  
• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
  
  
• My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated.
  
  
• Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.
  
  
• Only God can judge me.
  
  
• I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why, so they label me a lunatic, could care less death or success, is what I quest cause I'm fearless.
  
  
• We talk a lot about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., but it's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and every one of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who I am, this is what I do. I say what's on my mind.
  
  
• No matter who committed the crime, they all yell at me. And the media is greedier than most. You could sell 'em your soul and they'll be on ya till a nigga's a ghost.
  
  
• And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.
  
  
• Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.
  
  
• I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I'm supposed to be.
  
  
• Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it.
  
  
• In my death, people will understand what I was talking about.
  
  
• Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back.
  
  
• I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.
  
  
• 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 it's on US, to do what we gotta do to survive.