QUOTEZ

Here are some of 2PAC's Quotes.

"Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don’t feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel the way I was living was my mentality and my progression to be a man. But we grow, we all grow, either we grow, evolve or disappear. I don’t wanna be forgotten. I will always be a trouble maker to some people. But, I still get love from my community. I owe them everything, that’s what I owe, everything to the hood. I got love there. I got love from the thugs in the streets. And that kind of focuses me back on to what I should be doing. Lay out the real map on the world and how it is. The message is, young black males can do anything if you just give us a shot and stop trying to beat us down. And to my homeboyz we need to be in control of ourselves. I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I do guarantee that I will spark the brains that will change the world. So, keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do. And then, inside of you, I will be reborn…"

"You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me?"

"There's gonna be some stuff u gonna see that's gonna make it hard To smile in the future, but through whatever you see, Through all the rain and all the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. you gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit."

"The Only Thing That Comes to A Sleeping Man is Dreams."

"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."

"NOW I'M TRAPPED IN THA MOTHERFUCKIN' STORM!"

"Money gone, fuck friends, i need a homie that know me when all these mothafuckin cops be on me."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways."

"I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven."

"Live by the gun die by the gun."

"I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?"

"A coward dies a thousand deaths; A soldier dies but once."

"I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward."

"I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent."

"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight."

"When my Heart Can Beat No More I hope die for a principal or a belief that I have lived for."

"Only God can judge me."

"My only fear of death is comin back reincarnated."

"We talk a lot about Malcom X and Martin Luther King JR, but It's time to be like them, as strong as them. They were mortal men like us and everyone of us can be like them. I don't want to be a role model. I just want to be someone who says, this is who i am, this is what i do. I say what's on my mind."

"I am societies child, this is how they made me, and now im sayin what's on my mind and they dont want that. This is what you made me America."

"The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since."

"Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear."

"The american dream wasn't meant for me, cause lady liberty's a hypocrite she lied to me, promised me freedom, education, and equality never gave me nothing but slavery but now look at how dangerous you made me callin me a mad man because im strong and bold."

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

"Let the Lord judge the criminals."

"Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it."

"Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me."

"I never thought I was the best rapper the best nothing'. I think I'm the realist nigga out there."

"People might be, like, "This niggas conceited," but fuck it. I feel like I shine. And I don't give a fuck how many white people, the Media, black people, playa haters, police, whoever, try to darken my shine, Im'a always shine through."

"All I can say is I always try to be a real nigga in my heart. Sometimes its good, sometimes it's bad; but its still us. Its never to hurt anybody.

"If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So way is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how am leaning crooked to the side, u can't even see that I've come up from out of that."

"Killing us one by one. In one way or another, America will find a way to eliminate the problem one by one. The problem is the troubles in the black youth of the ghettos. And one by one we are being wiped off the face of this earth. At an extremely alarming rate. And even more alarming is the fact that we are not fighting back. Brothers, sistas, niggas! When I say niggas it is not the nigga we are grown to fear. It is not the nigga we say as if it has no meaning. But to me it means “Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished”. Niggas what are we going to do? Walk blind into a line or fight, fight and die if we must, like niggas."

"AMERIKA, AMERIKA, AMERIKA...KA...KA. I charge you with the crime of rape, murder, and assault. For suppressing and punishing my people, I charge you with robbery for robbing me of my history. I charge you with false imprisonment for keeping me trapped in the projects. And the jury finds you guilty on all accounts. And you are to serve the consequences of your evil schemes. Prosecutor do you have any more evidence?"

"NIGHTMARE! That’s what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me. The hate and evil that you gave me, I shine of a reminder of what you have done to my people for four hundred plus years. You should be scared, you should be running. You should be trying to silence me. But you can not escape fate well it is my turn to come; just as you rose you shall fall, by my hands. America, you reap what you sow 2pacalypse America's Nightmare! Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob America's Nightmare! Above the Law America's Nightmare! Paris America's Nightmare! Public Enemy America's Nightmare! KRS-One America's Nightmare! Mutulu Shakur America's Nightmare! Geronimo Pratt America's Nightmare! Assada Shakur America's Nightmare!"

"Stole my lyrics. I stole his bitch. Took my rhymes. I took his wife. If he talk all that shit about being a playa and I got his wife two days after I got outta jail- imagine that gangsta shit he's talking, imagine how plastic that shit is."

"How many bruthas fell victim to the street rest in peace young nigga there's a heaven for a G, it'd be a lie if I told you that I never thought of death, my niggaz, we the last ones left, life goes on..."

"Maybe now niggaz feel me now. Picture my pain. Embrace my words. Make the world change. And still I smile nigga."

"I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing......That's what I want little niggaz to see."

"Fuck the fame, I still won't change, are you still down?"

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

"It's kinda hard to be optimistic, when your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted."

"They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here."

"They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell."

“You know your honour, and through this entire court case. You haven’t looked me or my attorney in the eye, once. It’s obvious you’re not here searching justice. So therefore there’s no point me asking for a lighter sentence. I don’t care what you do because you’re not respecting us this is not a court of law. As far as I’m concerned no justice is being served here and you still can’t look me in the eye. So I say do what you want, give me whatever time you want. Because I’m not in your hands, I’m in Gods hands.” {IN COURT TOO THE JUDGE}