Top 300 Tupac Shakur Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

220. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

222. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

225. “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

226. “Love IS the People’s Power.”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

228. “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

229. “There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.”

— Tupac Shakur

230. “Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.”

— Tupac Shakur

231. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

233. “I’m not saying I’m gonna rule the world or I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee you that I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that’s our job, It’s to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one’s, but let’s not be selfish and because we not gonna change the world let’s not talk about how we should change it. I don’t know how to change it, but I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody’s gonna clean it up.”

— Tupac Shakur

234. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

236. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

239. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

241. “I ain’t racist but lets trade places.”

— Tupac Shakur

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

246. “It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.”

— Tupac Shakur

247. “I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.”

— Tupac Shakur

248. “When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

249. “Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.”

— Tupac Shakur

250. “Elevation of today’s generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain’t what we need, no longer stuck in greed.”

— Tupac Shakur