Tupac Shakur Quotes

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!

Mi amor se nutre de tu amor, amada

America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes... My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and stretch.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

I wasn’t astonished by Europe and I was never that impressed by the speed and grandeur of modern America

In "Mystery Train" (1955), he rocks out with an astounding depth, Elvis' voice never sounding so rich, nor so pleading; best of all is his final spontaneous laugh & whoop of excitement, worth its weight in gold.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.

Las artes (pintura, poesía, etc.) no son solo éstas. Artes son también comer, beber, caminar: todo acto es un arte.

I have visited Graceland and you could see the man was overwhelmingly honest. He never professed any taste other than his own, that is, country boy made good. He never pretended to be anyone else.

They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!

Men are lying when they say they are terrified of blood.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.