Shakur Quotes

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.”

“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.”

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

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'”

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

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

“With all my fans I got a family again.”