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

America wants its respect.
Tupac Shakur

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

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

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

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.
Tupac Shakur

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

I'll probably be punished for hard living.
Tupac Shakur

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

I'm a reflection of the community.
Tupac Shakur

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

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Tupac Shakur

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

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