719 Quotes by Tupac Shakur

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

You got to constantly be in character

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be.

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.