Top 100 Shakur Quotes
#1. 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
#2. He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
Michael Eric Dyson
#3. You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
#4. I decided on Assata Olugbala Shakur. Assata means "She who struggles," Olugbala means "Love for the people," and i took the name Shakur out of respect for Zayd and Zayd's family. Shakur means "the thankful.
Assata Shakur
#5. Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace,
Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis
Wouldn't exchange the love and fame
Attached to their loved ones' names
Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?
Kelvin Mercer
#6. One of the worst cases is that of ASSATA SHAKUR, who spent over twenty months in solitary confinement in two separate men's prisons subject to conditions totally unbefitting any prisoner.
Assata Shakur
#7. For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!
Nate Burleson
#8. 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
#9. 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.
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Assata Shakur
#14. Heavenly Father, I'm a soldier
I'm gettin, hotter, cuz the world is gettin' colder.
Tupac Shakur
#15. 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
#16. If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
Assata Shakur
#17. Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you.
Tupac Shakur
#18. The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.
Tupac Shakur
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.
Tupac Shakur
#22. 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
#23. You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.
Tupac Shakur
#24. That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.
Assata Shakur
#25. I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
Tupac Shakur
#26. The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
Assata Shakur
#27. War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal
Tupac Shakur
#28. I really wanted to know what happens in a place that is trying to build socialism, that's trying to construct some form of social justice. That's trying to feed people, to make health care and education a right.
Assata Shakur
#29. My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.
Assata Shakur
#30. Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.
Assata Shakur
#32. Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
Assata Shakur
#33. My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
Assata Shakur
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.
Tupac Shakur
#37. Everything you love
is from a different world.
Hungry,
you turn your nose up
at my peas and rice.
Assata Shakur
#38. Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.
Tupac Shakur
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer.
Tupac Shakur
#42. Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look.
Tupac Shakur
#43. 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
#44. At the time, Alcatraz had been taken over by Native Americans who were protesting against a long series of broken treaties, genocidal policies, and racist exploitation.
Assata Shakur
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#49. Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.
Tupac Shakur
#50. I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
Assata Shakur
#51. We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.
Tupac Shakur
#52. We found out later that a lone Black juror had refused to convict us. He had heard us.
Assata Shakur
#53. They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.
Tupac Shakur
#54. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
Tupac Shakur
#55. Usually, after a disagreement, they suggested i read this or that, often Marx, Lenin, or Engels. I preferred Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, Che, or Fidel, but i ended up having to get into Marx and Lenin just to understand a lot of the speeches and stuff Huey Newton was putting out.
Assata Shakur
#56. Eventually became convinced that the Cuban government was completely committed to eliminating all forms of racism. There were no racist institutions, structures, or organizations, and i understood how the Cuban economic system undermined rather than fed racism.
Assata Shakur
#57. Out on bail, fresh outta jail, California dreamin
Tupac Shakur
#58. 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
#59. A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
Assata Shakur
#60. No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Tupac Shakur
#61. God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.
Tupac Shakur
#62. 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
#63. Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?
Tupac Shakur
#64. I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.
Assata Shakur
#65. The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
Assata Shakur
#66. Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.
Tupac Shakur
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain't.
Assata Shakur
#72. 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
#73. There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated
Tupac Shakur
#74. You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently ...
Tupac Shakur
#75. 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
#76. If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.
Tupac Shakur
#78. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
Tupac Shakur
#79. They went up against white mobs, water hoses, vicious dogs, the Ku Klux Klan, trigger-happy nightstick-wielding police, armed only with their belief in justice and their desire for freedom.
Assata Shakur
#80. Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open.
Tupac Shakur
#81. Faith my homegirl. I just wanna send a shout out to Faith. Hey girl.
Tupac Shakur
#82. I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
Tupac Shakur
#83. I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.
Tupac Shakur
#84. When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
Tupac Shakur
#85. 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
#88. And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.
Assata Shakur
#89. One sticks his fingers in my eyes. I don't know what he has on his fingertips, but whatever it is burns like hell. I think I am gonna be blind forever. He says he will keep doing it until i am completely blind.
Assata Shakur
#90. There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see
that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.
Tupac Shakur
#91. Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL
Tupac Shakur
#92. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur
#93. God come save the youth, Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand.
Tupac Shakur
#94. It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.
Tupac Shakur
#95. Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
Assata Shakur
#96. Only God Can Judge Me
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my
life
Tupac Shakur
#97. I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
Assata Shakur
#98. Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.
Tupac Shakur
#99. 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
#100. I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
Tupac Shakur
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