Tupac Amaru Shakur Quotes

• Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn’t mean nothing when it came to fear.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Love

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Change, Music

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Special

• Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational

  Tags in Wrong, Real, Reality

• I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Adversity, Courage
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  Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while we’re still alive. Never surrender.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Greatest
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  Let the Lord judge the criminals.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge, Lord
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  For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dark

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in My Life, Deal

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Months, Crime

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Somebody, Lord

• I’m a reflection of the community.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reflection, Community

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worked, Comfortable

• I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Reincarnated, Coming

• The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Man

• It’s a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Struggle

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seems, Bring

• I don’t have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jail, Talk

• The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems, Sleep

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shot, Cold

Tupac Amaru Shakur (38)

Birth:	16th June, 1971
Death:	13th September, 1996
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Artist, Poet, Record Producer, Screenwriter

About

Shakur, according to relatives real name Lesane Parish Crooks, was born on June 16, 1971, in the East Harlem section of Manhattan in New York City. He was named after Túpac Amaru, an 18th century South American revolutionary who was executed after leading an indigenous uprising against Spanish rule.

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