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

• For every dark night, there’s a brighter day.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dark

• 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

• With all my fans I got a family again.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Fans, Again

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Tags in Constantly, Train

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jail, Gave

• We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Tags in Gonna, Bleed

• Thug Life to me is dead.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Tags in Dead, Thug

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scar, Nobody

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems, Sleep

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Man

• 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

• My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Used, Find

• Let the Lord judge the criminals.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judge, Lord

• 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 Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gonna, Fun

• 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

• In my mind I’m a blind man doin’ time.

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doin, Time

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

  Tupac Amaru Shakur

  Topics in God

  Tags in East, Believe

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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