Tupac Amaru Shakur Quotes

• 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.

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• There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

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• If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

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• My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’

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• Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

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• I’ll probably be punished for hard living.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• With all my fans I got a family again.

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• Thug Life to me is dead.

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• We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

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• When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character.

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• I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren’t honorable.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Tupac Amaru Shakur (38)

Birth:	16th June, 1971
Death:	13th September, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Artist, Poet, Record Producer, Screenwriter

About

Shakur, according to relatives real name Lesane Parish Crooks, was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. He was named after Túpac Amaru, an 18th century South American revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against Spanish rule.

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