Tupac Shakur Quotes

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

I've always believed in survival.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

Our troubles keep us going.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

We are facing a stiff wind right now, but if we persist and keep fighting back, we will prevail.

Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.