Quotes by Tupac Shakur

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.

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

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.

America wants its respect.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.