Top 300 Tupac Shakur Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Life in the pen ain’t for me ’cos I’d rather die.”

— Tupac Shakur

302. “You can’t disrespect the love. You can’t disrespect the peace treaty.”

— Tupac Shakur

303. “Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!”

— Tupac Shakur

304. “You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently...”

— Tupac Shakur

305. “I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit.”

— Tupac Shakur

306. “I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable.”

— Tupac Shakur

307. “The third always speaks the unspeakable words.”

— Tupac Shakur

308. “My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don’t want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down.”

— Tupac Shakur

309. “You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town.”

— Tupac Shakur

310. “How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again.”

— Tupac Shakur

311. “I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.”

— Tupac Shakur

312. “When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.”

— Tupac Shakur

313. “I rap about fighting back. I make it uncomfortable by putting details to it. It might not have been politically correct but I’ve reached somebody; They relating to me. They relate to the brutal honesty in the rap.”

— Tupac Shakur

314. “Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.”

— Tupac Shakur

315. “You got to constantly be in character.”

— Tupac Shakur

316. “Our unborn never got to grow, never got to see what’s, next, In this world full of countless threats.”

— Tupac Shakur

317. “America wants its respect.”

— Tupac Shakur

318. “People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”

— Tupac Shakur

319. “I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”

— Tupac Shakur

320. “I ain’t calling me God. I’m just doing my part on where I think hip hop should go. I think hip hop should be about more money, crazier sounds, different beats.”

— Tupac Shakur

321. “Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.”

— Tupac Shakur

322. “I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.”

— Tupac Shakur

323. “That girl can barely spell her name.”

— Tupac Shakur

324. “I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That’s why I don’t rob people and stick up people.”

— Tupac Shakur

325. “The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.”

— Tupac Shakur

326. “Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend.”

— Tupac Shakur

327. “There’s a machine that I have nothing to do with. It’s called the “Tupac Machine.””

— Tupac Shakur

328. “And everyday I read the paper, there’s another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy.”

— Tupac Shakur

329. “In my brain all I think about is fame.”

— Tupac Shakur

330. “Everyday there’s more death, and plus I’m doughless. I’m seeing more reasons for me to proceed with thieving.”

— Tupac Shakur

331. “I just put out a hardcore double album. Next I’m gonna put out an introspective album.”

— Tupac Shakur

332. “Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.”

— Tupac Shakur

333. “I can’t give up. It’s a rap thang. And I ain’t goin back to the crack game.”

— Tupac Shakur

334. “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

335. “I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, ’cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I’m saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like – there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.”

— Tupac Shakur

336. “Don’t cry through your dispair.”

— Tupac Shakur

337. “Everything he wanna have-I got.”

— Tupac Shakur

338. “I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can’t look at Biggie and not laugh.”

— Tupac Shakur

339. “Questions for the lord, why he don’t like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.”

— Tupac Shakur

340. “If you’re a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.”

— Tupac Shakur

341. “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.”

— Tupac Shakur

342. “Throw it up y’all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let’s show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it’s tha best side.”

— Tupac Shakur

343. “You ain’t gotta be in jail to be doin’ time.”

— Tupac Shakur

344. “I guess change is good for any of us.”

— Tupac Shakur