Tupac Shakur Quotes

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

When a person gets to the age of 35 and you go to jail, it either makes you or breaks you. It made me identify what I wanted.

I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.

I have not an ounce of regret. Every link is so valuable in forming the chain that is my life. Who I am today is because of those links, and I wouldn't change any of them.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.