I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That’s bad. – Tupac Shakur
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 Shakur
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? – Tupac Shakur
I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn’t commit. – Tupac Shakur
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. – Tupac Shakur
All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. – Tupac Shakur
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. – Tupac Shakur
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. – Tupac Shakur
My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’ – Tupac Shakur
I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect. – Tupac Shakur
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. – Tupac Shakur
When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character. – Tupac Shakur
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. – Tupac Shakur
