Quotes About Tupac

#1. You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have to. When it came to my brother, it was written across her face in 112-point Tupac Gothic.

Junot Diaz

#2. Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Stevie Wonder

#3. We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.

Cynthia McKinney

#4. I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll know it word-for-word. That's why I feel like I got my own sound - or a D.C. sound.

Shy Glizzy

#5. You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

Michael K. Williams

#6. No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

J. Cole

#7. Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.

Bevy Smith

#8. They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd

#9. I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

Michael Isabella

#10. When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

Curtis Jackson

#11. I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause that was my generation, so Tupac was mine.

French Montana

#12. I listen to a lot of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Old school songs. Rick Ross. I listen to a guy ASAP Rocky. I like different kinds of music. I always have. It motivates me before games ... A Tupac playlist or a Meek Mill playlist. It varies.

Trey Burke

#13. I went to Baltimore School of the Arts, which is known for discovering Tupac and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

Bresha Webb

#14. Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.

Mark Wahlberg

#15. One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

J. Cole

#16. I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

Spencer Pratt

#17. I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

Trent Reznor

#18. I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

Derek Luke

#19. You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.
Tupac Shakur

Tupac Shakur

#20. If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars ...

Donnell Rawlings

#21. As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

#22. There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."

Tupac Shakur

#23. There's a great documentary on Tupac called 'Resurrection' about the last few years of Tupac's life and how he transformed. And, ironically, how this East Coast rapper became this West Coast icon, back when all that Death Row/Sean Combs stuff was going on.

Marco Rubio

#24. But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.

Bubba Sparxxx

#25. I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Shameik Moore

#26. When I was 10 years old my mom used to play Tupac while she cleaned the house.

Soulja Boy

#27. I hate the hype. When 50 Cent came out, people were saying that he was the best rapper alive: "Oh, he got shot nine times, he's better than Tupac, he's better than Biggie." That was all hype.

ASAP Rocky

#28. For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!

Nate Burleson

#29. Sorry. My friends didn't mention certain ... details about you and you just wouldn't believe how nutty some people are. Just last week, I had a woman convinced her trailer was haunted by Tupac, as if he'd want to spend eternity in a double wide that smelled like cat piss.

Jeaniene Frost

#30. Tupac was around back in my wind-up phonograph days, you know.

J.M. Darhower

#31. Who knows what tomorrow brings
In a world where everyone lies ...
Tupac

Raquel Taylor

#32. Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

Angela Davis

#33. In the world that came after this one, I was sure she had a grin on her face while she hung out with Tupac and Nemo's mom.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#34. I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

Eminem

#35. I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

Lori Petty

#36. 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

#37. I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

Kendrick Lamar

#38. Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.

Ice Cube

#39. I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

Priyanka Chopra

#40. I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Michael Eric Dyson

#41. I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

Gold Panda

#42. Tupac was just so passionate about what he believes in and not afraid to say anything.

J. Cole

#43. I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

Stephanie Mills

#44. I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

Marco Rubio

#45. I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

Dr. Dre

#46. I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

J. Cole

#47. As far as Rap goes Tupac was my favorite, I used to sing some of his songs in my set before I ever met his dad.

Michael Tolcher

#48. I always want to execute and maximize off of potential, and this is a natural progression. Coming up as a youngster, I always wanted to be a rapper, but I knew that if I did everything right as a rapper, I'd end up as an actor, following the models of Ice Cube, Tupac [Shakur] and Will Smith.

T.I.

#49. Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#50. She, the first-born daughter of water, faced
darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her
lover and raised light as her child. Man that
shit was wild. You should have seen how
they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun
in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood
on his hands.

Saul Williams

#51. I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

Wale

#52. Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll never steal again, or deal again, my only friend is my misery. Wantin revenge for the agony they did to me.

Tupac Shakur

#53. 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

#54. It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

Tupac Shakur

#55. Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier
I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.

Tupac Shakur

#56. We are being wiped off the face of this earth
At an extremely alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact
That we are not fighting back

Tupac Shakur

#57. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.

Tupac Shakur

#58. The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

Tupac Shakur

#59. I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

Tupac Shakur

#60. 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

#61. And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

Tupac Shakur

#62. 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

#63. You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

Tupac Shakur

#64. I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

Tupac Shakur

#65. War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal

Tupac Shakur

#66. Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

Tupac Shakur

#67. The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.

Tupac Shakur

#68. 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

#69. We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

Tupac Shakur

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

Tupac Shakur

#71. I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing ...

Jaha Knight

#72. When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah ... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

Tupac Shakur

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

Tupac Shakur

#74. Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.

Tupac Shakur

#75. Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night ...
What of fame?
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone..

Tupac Shakur

#76. 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

#77. I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried, But that was fiction, Some coward got the story twisted, Like I no longer existed, Mysteriously missin', I'm known worldwide baby, I ain't hard to find.

Tupac Shakur

#78. 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

#79. It's hard to care when no one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

#80. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

Tupac Shakur

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

Tupac Shakur

#82. They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

Tupac Shakur

#83. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

Tupac Shakur

#84. Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin

Tupac Shakur

#85. 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

#86. No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.

Tupac Shakur

#87. God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Tupac Shakur

#88. 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

#89. Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

Tupac Shakur

#90. Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.

Tupac Shakur

#91. I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

Tupac Shakur

#92. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing.

Tupac Shakur

#93. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Tupac Shakur

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

Tupac Shakur

#97. You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently ...

Tupac Shakur

#98. Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall

Tupac Shakur

#99. If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.

Tupac Shakur

#100. If you don't know me, don't judge me.

Tupac Shakur