Tupac Shakur Quotes

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Fun, Game

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

Best, Live, Find

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shakur

Dreams, Reality, Real

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur

Good, Trying, Dirty

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
Tupac Shakur

Special, Next, Answers

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur

Time, Down, Happens

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur

Death, Fear, Coming

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
Tupac Shakur

Fight, Crime, Mine

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

Respect, Down, Leader

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

Bad, Rather, Cold

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Tupac Shakur

Change, Forever, Unless

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur

Dreams, Sleeping

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.
Tupac Shakur

Society, Mother, Reality

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

Care, Help, Here

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Tupac Shakur

God, Judge, Struggle

I'm a reflection of the community.
Tupac Shakur

Reflection, Community

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
Tupac Shakur

Time, Mind, Blind

Let the Lord judge the criminals.
Tupac Shakur

Judge, Lord, Criminals

Thug Life to me is dead.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Dead, Thug

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur

Time, Sleep, Problems

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

Times, Half, Crime

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.
Tupac Shakur

Die, Gonna, Bleed

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

Life, Giving, Deal

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur

Anybody, Committed, Honorable

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

Life, Change, Live

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 16, 1971

Died: September 13, 1996

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