1.
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.
Tupac Shakur
2.
Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.
Ronald Reagan
3.
God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.
Tupac Shakur
Heaven will evaluate my intentions, Humanity will assess my deeds.
4.
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Tupac Shakur
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't locate a reason to live, you should find a purpose to perish for.'
5.
I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.
Tupac Shakur
'Fate compelled me to pursue a life of criminality.'
6.
Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.
Tupac Shakur
'Everyone is locked in battle with different issues...I am constantly struggling against my own emotions at times.'
7.
Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.
Tupac Shakur
What is the point of striving if I'm only to perish?
8.
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
Tupac Shakur
9.
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
Tupac Shakur
I decline all the backstabbers, cowards, and FALSE FRIENDS who revealed to me the depths of envy, covetousness and avarice.
10.
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Tupac Shakur
Continue to fantasize throughout your lifetime. Nobody can confiscate your aspirations.
11.
All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.
Tupac Shakur
No amount of liquor and cannabis can veil the anguish I experience internally, it's like I'm existing merely to pass away.
12.
When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles.
Tupac Shakur
13.
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.
Hunter S. Thompson
14.
If you don't know me, don't judge me.
Tupac Shakur
"Don't make assumptions about me without getting to know me first."
15.
You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.
Tupac Shakur
Stay resolute even when the path is difficult; never capitulate.
17.
What doesn’t kill me can only make me stronger
Kid Ink
18.
But whats it all worth, cant take it when you under this earth
Rich men died and tried, but none of it worked
They just rob your grave, Id rather be alive and paid
Before my numbers called, historys made
Somell fall, but I rise, thug or die
Makin choices, that determine my future under the sky
To rob steal or kill, Im wondering why
Its a dirty game, is any man worthy of fame?
Much to success to ya, even if you wish me the opposite
Sooner or later we'll all see who the prophet is.
Nas
19.
That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.
Tupac Shakur
21.
The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.
Tupac Shakur
22.
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
Tupac Shakur
23.
But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes
and best friends become strangers, word up
Nas
24.
Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?
Tupac Shakur
25.
Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.
Tupac Shakur
27.
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
28.
A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs
Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!
Vinnie Paz
29.
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy.
Tupac Shakur
30.
I don't like thugs, I don't like nerds,
I don't like myself and I hate bein' disturbed.
Sean Price
31.
If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
Mark Twain
33.
This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
Tupac Shakur
34.
Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.
Jonathan Bowden
35.
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.
Tupac Shakur
36.
Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.
Ali Khamenei
37.
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
Eugene V. Debs
38.
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?
Christine Pelosi
39.
Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
Muhammad Ali
41.
I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.
Tupac Shakur
42.
For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.
Suge Knight
43.
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.
John Pugsley
44.
MCs get a little bit of love and think they hot,
Talkin bout how much money they got...all y'all records sound the same.
I'm sick of that fake thug, R&B-rap scenario, all day on the radio,
Same scenes in the video, monotonous material.
...Y'all don't hear me though:
These record labels slang our tapes like dope.
You can be next in line and signed, and still be writing rhymes and broke.
Stic.man
47.
I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing.
Tupac Shakur
48.
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
Tupac Shakur
49.
I'm not a gangster, I'm not a thug.. I'm just me and if I feel like someone is trying to hurt me.. yeah I'm gonna hurt 'em.. if you come and you ain't coming right I'm gonna blow your head off.
Curtis Jackson
50.
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that.
KRS-One