90 Greatest Tupac Quotes That Will Blow Your Mind

Check out these Tupac quotes and discover the wisdom of one of the greatest rappers of all time.

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Top 10 Tupac Quotes by the Author

1. “Only God can judge me.” — Tupac

2. “I’m not perfect, but I’ll always be real.” — Tupac

3. “Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it.” — Tupac

4. “If you could walk a mile in my shoes you’d be crazy too.” ― Tupac

5. “They have money for war but can’t feed the poor.” ― Tupac

6. “Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.” ― Tupac

7. “I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.” ― Tupac

8. “Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.” — Tupac

9. “You never know how strong you can be until being strong is the only choice you have left.” — Tupac

10. “Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.” — Tupac

Tupac Quotes About Life

1. “Don’t live to fight, fight to live.” ― Tupac

2. “Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can see and feel.” — Tupac

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

4. “I’d rather die like a man, than live like a coward” ― Tupac

5. “This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.” — Tupac

6. “Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies.” — Tupac

7. “Life is a wheel of fortune and it’s my turn to spin it.” — Tupac

8. “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.” ― Tupac

9. “When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm-peace, and 3 minutes after that, it was on.” — Tupac

10.“No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing how hard it is to carry on when no one loves you.” ― Tupac

Tupac Quotes To Inspire You

1. “I can’t explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.” — Tupac

2. “The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.” ― Tupac

3. “If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.” ― Tupac

4. “Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.” ― Tupac

5. “Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that.” — Tupac

6. “Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.” — Tupac

7. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” ― Tupac

8. “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams” ― Tupac

9. “Just because you live in the ghetto doesn’t mean you can’t grow.” — Tupac

10. “The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it’s planted in stone.” — Tupac

11. “I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle.” — Tupac

12. “Should I just stop trying and give up? But then, that’s exactly what they’re waiting for me to do.” — Tupac

13. “Always do your best, don’t let the pressure make you panic.” — Tupac

14. “When times are dim, say as I say, ‘When there’s a will, there’s a way!'” — Tupac

15. “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.” ― Tupac

Tupac Quotes To Shift Your Perspective

1. “Don’t believe everything you hear. Real eyes, realize, real lies.” ― Tupac

2. “The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.” ― Tupac

3. “You ain’t gotta be in jail to be doin’ time.” ― Tupac

4. “Even the genius asks questions.” ― Tupac

5. “They ordered the extermination of all minds they couldn’t control.” — Tupac

6. “And did you ever stop to think that I’m old enough to go to war but I aint old enough to drink.” ― Tupac

7. “You gotta make a change. You see the old way wasn’t working, so it’s on us to do what we gotta do to survive.” — Tupac

8. “If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.” ― Tupac

9. If you’re in hell, how can you live like an angel? You’re surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That’s like suicide.” ― Tupac

10. “We can never go nowhere unless we share with each other.” — Tupac

11. “I make mistakes but learn from every one.” — Tupac

12. “I mean, why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room? It just don’t make sense to me.” — Tupac

13. “I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings.” — Tupac

14. “Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.” — Tupac

15. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” ― Tupac

Tupac Quotes About Love

1. “Always falling too deep in a relationship, always end up being the one that’s hurt the most.” — Tupac

2. “Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.” ― Tupac

3. “I wanna take your misery, replace it with happiness. But I need your faith in me, I’m a sucka for love.” — Tupac

4. “Every time I fall in love with a woman, I don’t fall in love with the woman she is, I fall in love with the woman she could be.” — Tupac

5. “I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.” ― Tupac

6. “I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection” ― Tupac

7. “Fear is stronger than love.” ― Tupac

8. “Cause everything I feel for you I wanna let you know. Passionately yours and I’ll never let you go.” — Tupac

9. “I’m not saying girls are perfect cause we all know that’s not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you?” — Tupac

10. “Never apologize for how much love you have to give. Just feel sorry for those who didn’t want any of it.” — Tupac

2pac Quotes That Challenge The Norm

1. “Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.” ― Tupac

2. “Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?” ― Tupac

3. “I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.” ― Tupac

4. “Do everything you can to make it around the system, over the system, or out the system.” — Tupac

5. “I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” — Tupac

6. “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

7. “Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.” — Tupac

8. “You’re right. I am crazy. But you know what else? I don’t give a f*ck.”― Tupac

9. “Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.” — Tupac

10. “Don’t leave this world without giving it your all.” — Tupac

11. “I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that’s bad, I’m going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I’m doing is right. So I feel like I’m going to heaven.” — Tupac

12. “The only thing that can stop me is death, and even then my music will live forever.” — Tupac

13. “I’m not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me.” — Tupac

14. “That’s how knowledge works, it’s contagious.” — Tupac

15. “A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.” — Tupac

Tupac Quotes With Profound Meaning

1. “We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart.” — Tupac

2. “People tend 2 choke that which they do not understand” ― Tupac

3. “I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.” — Tupac

4. “If you let a person talk long enough, you’ll hear their true intentions.” ― Tupac

5. “I guess change is good for any of us.” ― Tupac

6. “War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal” ― Tupac

7. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” ― Tupac

8. “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.” ― Tupac

9. “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it’s dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.” ― Tupac

10. “You know nothing can stop me but loss of breath, and I’m still breathing so it’s still on.” — Tupac

11. “A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once.” ― Tupac

12. “The evil forces are going to be at me. They’re going to come 100 percent, so if I don’t be 100 percent pure-hearted, I’m going to lose.” — Tupac

13. “Everything wasn’t meant to be analyzed.” — Tupac

14. “Every time I speak, I want the truth to come out. Every time I speak I want a shiver.” — Tupac

15. “And since a man can’t make one he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one” ― Tupac

Final Words

I hope these Tupac quotes have served as inspiration to live your life to the fullest.