If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

- Tupac Shakur

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 Shakur

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 Shakur

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 Shakur

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

- Tupac Shakur

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

- Tupac Shakur

With all my fans I got a family again.

- Tupac Shakur

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.

- Tupac Shakur

I'm a reflection of the community.

- Tupac Shakur

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

- Tupac Shakur

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

- Tupac Shakur

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

- Tupac Shakur

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

- Tupac Shakur

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

- Tupac Shakur

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 Shakur

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

- Tupac Shakur

America wants its respect.

- Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

- Tupac Shakur

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 Shakur

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

- Tupac Shakur