Tupac Shakur

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

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

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.

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

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.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Thug Life to me is dead.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

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.

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.

I'm a reflection of the community.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.