Top 300 Tupac Shakur Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Losing my homies in a hurry, they’re relocating to the cemetery.”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

204. “Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races.”

— Tupac Shakur

205. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

208. “Now up and atom it’s on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what’s strange is nobody knew my name.”

— Tupac Shakur

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209. “Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...”

— Tupac Shakur

210. “How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I’ll kill all of y’all.”

— Tupac Shakur

211. “If we’re all saying that rap is an art form then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you’re saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.”

— Tupac Shakur

212. “Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows.”

— Tupac Shakur

213. “Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.”

— Tupac Shakur

214. “And every breath I breathe untill the moment I’m deceased. Will be another moment ballin’ as a ‘G’.”

— Tupac Shakur

215. “If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”

— Tupac Shakur

216. “It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell.”

— Tupac Shakur

217. “My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I’ll shed many tears.”

— Tupac Shakur

218. “Why isn’t it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it’s ok. It’s music, it’s hip-hop, it’s ground breaking. When I do it, it’s war.”

— Tupac Shakur

219. “Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.”

— Tupac Shakur

220. “I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family.”

— Tupac Shakur

221. “I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow’s Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death.”

— Tupac Shakur

222. “Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.”

— Tupac Shakur

223. “I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it’s worth millions.”

— Tupac Shakur

224. “I don’t advocate senseless violence of any human being. I’m the one who’s been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.”

— Tupac Shakur

225. “My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack.”

— Tupac Shakur

226. “Once people take time to find out who I really am you’d be surprised.”

— Tupac Shakur

227. “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.”

— Tupac Shakur

228. “Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?”

— Tupac Shakur

229. “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.”

— Tupac Shakur

230. “And thats the way it was and thats the way the cookie crumbles.”

— Tupac Shakur

231. “This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.”

— Tupac Shakur

232. “Though things change, the future’s still inside of me.”

— Tupac Shakur

233. “They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.”

— Tupac Shakur

234. “I did not wanted to become the victim, so became the bully.”

— Tupac Shakur

235. “Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven’t taken music from us yet. So that’s how I’ll fight. People tell me don’t quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.”

— Tupac Shakur

236. “I’m not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.”

— Tupac Shakur

237. “Papa wasn’t man enough, couldn’t stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he’d rather live lavishly.”

— Tupac Shakur

238. “I am being ripped off, because I’ve never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work.”

— Tupac Shakur

239. “And I hope I’m forgiven for Thug Livin when I die.”

— Tupac Shakur

240. “My music will mean something. I’ll have my own production company. I’m doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.”

— Tupac Shakur

241. “And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.”

— Tupac Shakur

242. “It’s no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.”

— Tupac Shakur

243. “Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.”

— Tupac Shakur

244. “I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I’m dying in a gun fight.”

— Tupac Shakur

245. “They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions blurry. Fallen to pieces am I guilty? I pray to the lord but his laws be unfortunate because im guilty.”

— Tupac Shakur

246. “Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I’m in heaven and they aint got hoods.”

— Tupac Shakur

247. “My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that’s why she was a Black Panther.”

— Tupac Shakur

248. “Everybody raps. We rap to make money. We do business. Ain’t no other record company out there that sold as many records as we did.”

— Tupac Shakur

249. “After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.”

— Tupac Shakur

250. “Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.”

— Tupac Shakur