"If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me."

"I've always been an actor, the reason I've been successful in the rap-game I think is that I treat my albums like movies, and I treat writing it like I'm a character writing a story, you know, for each album whatever I'm going through, whatever stages I'm going through, and I do it vividly with vivid pitcure, with action and description, and an beginning and with an end, and conflict, and you know, redemption, things like that. So I feel like I always been an actor and acting is my first love."

"The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever."

"Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear."

"Trust nobody, TRUST NO BODY."

"Listen to the words people say in their lyrics, and tell me, if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean. Listen to what they sayin', don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game, and listen to what Im saying. Hold us accountable for it."

"Don't support the phonies, support the real."

"I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living and my mentality was a part of my progression to be a man."

"Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that."

"Watch people, because you can fake for a long time, but one day you're gonna show yourself to be a phony."

"No matter what these people say about me, my music does not glorify any image, my music is spiritual if you listen to it. It's all about emotion, it's all about life."

"Now if we do wanna live the thug life and the gangsta' life and all that, OK, so stop being cowards and let's have a revolution. But we don't wanna do that, dudes just wanna live "character", they wanna be "cartoons", but if they really wanted to do something, they was that tuff, alright, let's start our own country, let's start a revolution, let's get outta' here, let's do something. But they don't wanna do that, they wanna pimp our communities and portray this image that they know we all can't survive and make, and that's what I saw."

"Jail is big business, believe me. I'm in jail, I see the big business. You can feed a whole town off one jail. This jail is in the middle of a town that feeds everybody. Everybody works here, this is the main income. So if there were no criminals, nobody would work."

"Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that."

"The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us."

"America is the biggest gang in the world."

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"Pac's Life (2006)"

"Live At The House Of Blues (with Outlawz, Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg, K-Ci & JoJo) (2005)"

"The Rose Vol. 2 (2005)"

"Loyal to the Game (2004)"

"2Pac Live (2004)"

"Nu-Mixx Klazzics (2003)"

"Tupac Resurrection (2003)"

"Better Dayz (2002)"

"Until the End of Time (2001)"

"The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)"

"The Lost Tapes (1989/released 2000)"

"Still I Rise (2Pac + Outlawz) (1999)"

"2Pac's Greatest Hits (1998)"

"R U Still Down? (1997)"

"Makaveli: The Don Killuminati: 7 Day Theory (1996)"

"All Eyez on Me (1996)"

"Me Against the World (1995)"

"Thug Life: Thug Life Vol. 1 (1994)"

"Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z (1993)"

"2Pacalypse Now (1991)"