Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tupac Shakur
Age: 25 †
Born: 1971
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: September 13
Actor
Composer
Dancer
Film Actor
Lyricist
Music Producer
Poet
Rapper
Road Crew
Screenwriter
Singer
Social Activist
Songwriter
Spanish Harlem
2Pac
Makaveli
Tupac Amaru Shakur
Tupac
Lesane Parish Crooks
Lesane Crooks
Tupac Omar Shakur
Born
Respectful
Think
Bows
Thinking
Authority
Leadership
Respect
Leader
Natural

More quotes by Tupac Shakur

Image
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
Tupac Shakur
Image
You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.
Tupac Shakur
Image
You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?
Tupac Shakur
Image
fear no man but only God
Tupac Shakur
Image
If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.
Tupac Shakur
Image
If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.
Tupac Shakur
Image
I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.
Tupac Shakur
Image
Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.
Tupac Shakur
Image
It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.
Tupac Shakur
Image
If you fall stand tall and come back for more.
Tupac Shakur
Image
Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.
Tupac Shakur
Image
I'm not a gangsta rapper. I rap about things that happen to me. I got shot five times. People was trying to kill me.
Tupac Shakur
Image
I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!
Tupac Shakur
Image
My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig to it, but it's spiritual. My musi is spiritual. It's like Negro spiituals, except for the fact that I'm not saying 'We shall Overcome.' I'm saying that we are overcome.
Tupac Shakur
Image
I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.
Tupac Shakur
Image
It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of 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're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'
Tupac Shakur
Image
Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side.
Tupac Shakur
Image
Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.
Tupac Shakur
Image
For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean
Tupac Shakur
Image
If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
Tupac Shakur