Tupac Shakur
If you don't know me, don't judge me.Collection: Thug
Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.Collection: Hard Work
Real eyes, realize, real lies.Collection: Real
I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with meCollection: Believe
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.Collection: Betrayal
Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.Collection: Inspirational
It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.Collection: Lying
And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em.Collection: Rapper
Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.Collection: Trying
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.Collection: Crime
What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.Collection: Rapper
I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.Collection: Jail
Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep.Collection: Sleep
If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already.Collection: Thug
the evil the u are the brighter u will getCollection: Evil
Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back.Collection: Family
I said it in the beginning. That I was gonna take them niggaz out the game and sure enough I will. Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.Collection: Rapper
First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.Collection: Brother
Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear.Collection: Taken
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.Collection: Song
Well, the first two days in prison, I had to go through what life is like when you've been smoking weed for as long as I have and then you stop. Emotionally, it was like I didn't know myself.Collection: Weed
They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell.Collection: Rapper
I stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to 'em, they stressed out and goin' under.Collection: Heart
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.Collection: Rapper
I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger.Collection: Song
The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's "Vincent," that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take "Dear Mama" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings.Collection: Song
It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.Collection: Mother
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.Collection: Men
My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mackCollection: Thug
Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.Collection: Family
My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.Collection: Mother
I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you.Collection: Girl
Don't live to fight, fight to live.Collection: Fighting
If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.Collection: Sunshine
A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.Collection: Disrespect
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.Collection: Love
Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!Collection: Long
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.Collection: Fake People
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.Collection: Pain
My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.Collection: Inspirational
The trick is to never lose hope!Collection: Anticipation
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 fallCollection: Faith
Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.Collection: Play
When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.Collection: Mean
You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.Collection: Giving Up
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.Collection: Thug
I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Moving