"I believe that everything 
you do bad comes back to 
you. So everything that I do
that's bad, I'm going to 
suffer for it. But in my heart,
I believe that what I'm doing 
is right. So i feel like I'm 
going to heaven."
                    -2pac

I live my life a product
Made to crumble, much too 
hardened for a smile, way 
to crazy to be humble
    -Makaveli "Hail Mary"

They wanna bury me,
I'm worried I'm losin my mind 
Look down the barrel of my nine
and my vision's blurry 
Fallin to pieces, am I guilty? 
I pray to the Lord but he ignores me 
unfortunately cause I'm guilty
      -2pac "Only Fear of Death

So tell me why you changed
Choosing a new direction
In a blink of an eye
My time away just made perfection
You think I'd die
      -Makaveli "White Man's World

Living by the Nile
While the water flow
I'm contemplating plots
Wonder where they 
thought I'd go
Brothers getting shot
Coming back ressurrected
     -Makaveli "Blasphemy"

"Tupac keeps you 
searching, even 
now, for the line
between him and 
the him he put 
out there for 
you to see. 
    -Quincy Jones

"I'm in jail now,
but I'm free.My
mind is free. The
only time I have 
problems is when 
i sleep."
           -2pac

"Tupac keeps you 
searching, even 
now, for the line
between him and 
the him he put 
out there for 
you to see. 
    -Quincy Jones

"I see you black 
boy bent toward 
destruction watc-
hing for death 
with tight eyes"
-Sonia Sanchez, poet

Call me a Bad Boy killer 
Murder motherfuckers daily 
Know the fed trail me 
So my alias is Makaveli 
Gettin lessons from niggas 
in penitentieries 
Game when I'm high 
Help me survive 
several centuries 
     -2Pac "Made Niggas"

Who you callin' rapist
ain't that a bitch
you devils are so two faced
wanna see me locked in chains
droped in shame
and getten socked 
by these crooked cops again
     -2pac "Fuck the World"

Going insane, never die, 
I live eternal, who shall I fear?
Don't shed a tear for me nigga, 
I ain't happy here
I hope they bury me 
and send me to my rest
Headlines reading 
Murdered to Death
my last breath
      -2pac "If I Die 2nite"

        "The tragedy of Tupac is that
his untimely passing is representative
of too many young black men in this 
country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey
at 25, we would have lost a relatively
unknown, local market anchorwoman. If 
we had lost a Malcolm X at25, we would 
have lost a hustler nicknamed Detroit 
Red....And if we had left the world at 
25, we would have lost a big-band 
trumpet player and aspiring composer-
just a sliver of my eventual life 
potential."
                        -Quincy Jones

        "Tupac Shakur: a fiery ferocious
MC, an auspicious actor, a man so beaut-
iful he made you wanna touch the screen,
the photograph, him....He made you want
to kill him, defend him, make him your 
baby. He dared you to find the lies, to
prove he's crazy. Tupac keeps you sear-
ching, even now, for the line between
him and the him he put out there for 
you to see." 
                         -Danyel Smith