Top 300 Tupac Shakur Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Elevation of today’s generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain’t what we need, no longer stuck in greed.”

— Tupac Shakur

252. “If that’s what the court can do, then punish me more then I’ve been punished already.”

— Tupac Shakur

253. “The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.”

— Tupac Shakur

254. “I’m not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.”

— Tupac Shakur

255. “I’m calling for dialogue. I’m gathering attention for dialogue which is what you do in a struggle for power.”

— Tupac Shakur

256. “It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”

— Tupac Shakur

257. “Now the baby’s in the trash heap balling.”

— Tupac Shakur

258. “Evil’s lurking, I can see him smirking.”

— Tupac Shakur

259. “Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those ideals.”

— Tupac Shakur

260. “Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.”

— Tupac Shakur

261. “The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.”

— Tupac Shakur

262. “And even though i act crazy I gotta thank the lord that you made meh.”

— Tupac Shakur

263. “Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation.”

— Tupac Shakur

264. “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

265. “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

266. “Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.”

— Tupac Shakur

267. “I’m used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It’s horrible.”

— Tupac Shakur

268. “Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn’t create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.”

— Tupac Shakur

269. “Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That’s my job to what’s best for Death Row.”

— Tupac Shakur

270. “What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle – this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.”

— Tupac Shakur

271. “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

272. “The only time I have problems is when I sleep.”

— Tupac Shakur

273. “And in turn I’m hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.”

— Tupac Shakur

274. “I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.”

— Tupac Shakur

275. “Gotta get a tight grip, don’t slip, loose lips, sank ships, it’s a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.”

— Tupac Shakur

276. “My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.”

— Tupac Shakur

277. “I was raised in this society so you can’t expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.”

— Tupac Shakur

278. “I’d be in my hotel room, smoking too much, drinking, going to clubs, just being numb. That was being in jail to me. I wasn’t happy at all on the streets. That was the addict speaking.”

— Tupac Shakur

279. “When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It’s mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.”

— Tupac Shakur

280. “There ain’t no place like paradise.”

— Tupac Shakur

281. “Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.”

— Tupac Shakur

282. “So many other things for us to see, Things to be, Our history so full of tragedy and misery.”

— Tupac Shakur

283. “I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to ‘em, they stressed out and goin’ under.”

— Tupac Shakur

284. “Rollin wit a posse full of paranoid drugdealaz!”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

286. “It’s a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.”

— Tupac Shakur

287. “I struggle to be rugged and raw dude, trying to survive in the trials and lawsuits, Everybody wants to test me, WHY ME?”

— Tupac Shakur

288. “Can you picture my prophecy?”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Tupac Shakur

290. “The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay.”

— Tupac Shakur

291. “I’ll probably be punished for hard living.”

— Tupac Shakur

292. “While I’m dreaming, Wake up screaming, Cuz I can hear them suckas scheming.”

— Tupac Shakur

293. “Niggaz need guns, too.”

— Tupac Shakur

294. “To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I’m a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.”

— Tupac Shakur

295. “Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn’t pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that’s where all my money went.”

— Tupac Shakur

296. “Look at those words, ‘role’ and ‘model.’ Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that’s fake. I’m real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party.”

— Tupac Shakur

297. “Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.”

— Tupac Shakur

298. “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.”

— Tupac Shakur

299. “With all my fans I got a family again.”

— Tupac Shakur

300. “If Colin Powell was president, I’d follow him. I wanna get into politics. That’s the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.”

— Tupac Shakur