“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” ― Tupac Shakur
“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
“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
“They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.” ― Tupac Shakur
“You're right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one” ― Tupac Shakur
“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We're made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?” ― Tupac Shakur
“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.” ― Tupac Shakur
“If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy” ― Tupac Shakur
“A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.” ― Tupac Shakur
“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.” ― Tupac Shakur
“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
“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
“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams” ― Tupac Shakur
“Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” ― Tupac Shakur
“In life there are going to be some things that make it hard to smile. Through all the rain and pain you got to keep your sense of humor and smile for me now. Remember that.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Fear is stronger than love” ― Tupac Shakur
“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate. Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate. Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face. Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air. Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares. Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops, knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped. But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new, build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.” ― Tupac Shakur
“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how” ― Tupac Shakur
“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.” ― Tupac Shakur
“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated” ― Tupac Shakur
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.” ― Tupac Shakur
“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.” ― Tupac Shakur
“Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.” ― Tupac Shakur
“I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven” ― Tupac Shakur
“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
“All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.” ― Tupac Shakur