Tupac Shakur Quotes

I see the ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people, ’cause the rich people gonna be so fat, they gonna be so appetizing, you know what I’m saying, wealthy, appetizing. The poor gonna be so poor and hungry, you know what I’m saying? It’s gonna be like — there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

Now if we do wanna live the thug life and the gangsta' life and all that, OK, so stop being cowards and let's have a revolution. But we don't wanna do that, dudes just wanna live "character", they wanna be "cartoons", but if they really wanted to do something, they was that tuff, alright, let's start our own country, let's start a revolution, let's get outta' here, let's do something. But they don't wanna do that, they wanna pimp our communities and portray this image that they know we all can't survive and make, and that's what I saw.

It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other

I am the future of black America.

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.

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

Every day, I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in: We are hungry, please let us in. We are hungry, please let us in. After about a week that song is gonna change to: We hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks, it's like: Give me the food Or I'm breaking down the door. After a year you're just like: I'm picking the lock. Coming through the door blasting.

They ordered the extermination
of all minds they couldn't control

woke up screaming fuck the world

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.

Niggers was the ones on the rope,
hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.