Top 300 Tupac Shakur Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

— Tupac Shakur

152. “You never know what’s going on in somebody’s mind. There’s a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch it.”

— Tupac Shakur

153. “I feel like Black Jesus got his hands on me and guides me through life to put me where I’m supposed to be.”

— Tupac Shakur

154. “There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. 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. Let’s learn volleyball.”

— Tupac Shakur

155. “Thug Life to me is dead.”

— Tupac Shakur

156. “I’m doing this for the kid who truly leads a ‘thug life’ and thinks it’s HOPELESS.”

— Tupac Shakur

157. “The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.”

— Tupac Shakur

158. “Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X.”

— Tupac Shakur

159. “Ever since I was an itty bitty kitty, been drinking liquor out of Mama’s titty.”

— Tupac Shakur

160. “Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.”

— Tupac Shakur

161. “I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul.”

— Tupac Shakur

162. “Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don’t, then we’ll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.”

— Tupac Shakur

163. “I know death follows me, but I murder him first.”

— Tupac Shakur

164. “Can’t sleep ’cause all the dirt make my heart hurt.”

— Tupac Shakur

165. “That’s what I am, America’s nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.”

— Tupac Shakur

166. “First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.”

— Tupac Shakur

167. “We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.”

— Tupac Shakur

168. “I’m gonna tie you up, blind fold you, and we gonna play which hole feel the best.”

— Tupac Shakur

169. “Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.”

— Tupac Shakur

170. “Went to church but don’t understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.”

— Tupac Shakur

171. “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

172. “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

173. “Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.”

— Tupac Shakur

174. “I’m the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.”

— Tupac Shakur

175. “We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.”

— Tupac Shakur

176. “What people do for the struggle of power is madness.”

— Tupac Shakur

177. “I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.”

— Tupac Shakur

178. “You either ride with us, or collide with us.”

— Tupac Shakur

179. “It aint about black or white cause we’re human.”

— Tupac Shakur

180. “Heaven ain’t hard to find; all you gotta do is look.”

— Tupac Shakur

181. “Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.”

— Tupac Shakur

182. “When I die and they come for me bury me a g.”

— Tupac Shakur

183. “Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.”

— Tupac Shakur

184. “Thug Life hit me like the Holy ghost.”

— Tupac Shakur

185. “I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.”

— Tupac Shakur

186. “Picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witnessed struggles ive survived, praying hard for better days promised to hold on me and my dogs aint have a choice but to hold on.”

— Tupac Shakur

187. “Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there’s much more to life than poverty.”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

189. “Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.”

— Tupac Shakur

190. “One day I’m gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn’t find a trace of humanity.”

— Tupac Shakur

191. “It’s gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.”

— Tupac Shakur

192. “Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races.”

— Tupac Shakur

193. “Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father’s crimes.”

— Tupac Shakur

194. “It’s kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.”

— Tupac Shakur

195. “Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”

— Tupac Shakur

196. “My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.”

— Tupac Shakur

197. “Losing my homies in a hurry, they’re relocating to the cemetery.”

— Tupac Shakur

198. “I find any great man, black or white, I’m going to study him, learn him so he can’t be great to me no more.”

— Tupac Shakur

199. “Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That’s just life in the ghetto, do or die.”

— Tupac Shakur

200. “How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?”

— Tupac Shakur