Tupac Shakur

If I upset you don't stress; never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet.

Even the genius ask questions.

If God wanted me to be quiet he would've never showed me what he does.

I would rather be stricken blind, than to live without expression of mind.

They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours, They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

Biggie is not a playa. He's never been. He's never had bitches until he got some fuckin' money. That's a trick-that's not a playa.

Already people can't look at Biggie and not laugh.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the f*** on.

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. 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.

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.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

This is what you made me, America.

We shouldn't be angry and my raps that I'm rapping to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with the same atrocities that they gave to me? In the media, they don't talk about it. So in my raps, I have to talk about it.

I mean, I'm a rapper. I'm not a politician. I'm not a doctor. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a rapper.

I know it seems like I'm always in trouble. But I'm not looking for trouble. Trouble finds me.

I'm a natural born hustler. I'm a natural born leader. And I'm a natural born poet.

I'm not a thug. I'm not a killer. I'm just a man who's trying to make his way in this world.