Selena > Selena's Quotes

“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”
― Tupac Shakur

“It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other”
― Tupac Shakur

“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 Shakur

“Everybody against me. Why? Why me? I have not brought violence to you. I have not brought Thug Life to America. I didn't create Thug Life. I diagnosed it.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“I don't understand how people can
stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something,
and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinda scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say "damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.." you gonna be like "DAMN! a ROSE grew from the CONCRETE?”
― Tupac Shakur

“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”
― Tupac Shakur

“You know it's funny, when it rains it pours
they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.”
― Tupac Amaru Shahur

“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots”
― Tupac Shakur

“I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward”
― Tupac Shakur

“Only God can judge me.”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

“Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?”
― Tupac Shakur

“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 Shakur

“Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy”
― Tupac Shakur

“There should be a class on sex
education, a real sex-education class.
There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class
on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“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”
― Tupac Shakur

“It don't stop 'til the casket drop.”
― Tupac Shakur

“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”
― Tupac Shakur, The Rose That Grew From Concrete

“For every dark night, there's a brighter day.”
― Tupac Shakur

“My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated”
― Tupac Shakur

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”
― Tupac Shakur

“I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.”
― Tupac Shakur

“No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.”
― Tupac Shakur

“I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Fear is stronger than love”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.”
― Tupac Shakur

“There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated”
― Tupac Shakur