Tupac Shakur

"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."

"America wants its respect."

"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."

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

"I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

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

"Thug Life to me is dead."

"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."

"With all my fans I got a family again."