"I also just felt like, somethin was gonna happen to me, because I'm paranoid; and I put it in my videos. . . It was a prophecy. I had a prophecy, about my death. That's why I like to go in the studio and do three songs a day. Get things ready. If I die or whatever it can happen. If anything were to happen to me, there are albums ready to go. So it's all good. I felt as though the only thing that can kill me, is death, and even then my music will live forever."
"Comin to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was livin and my mentality was a part of my progression to be a man. But, you grow, we all grow, we're made to grow, either you evolve or you disappear. I don't wanna be forgotten; I'll always be a troublemaker to some people. But, I still get love from my community. I owe em' everything, that's where I owe everything, to the hood. I got love there, I got love from thugs and the street dudes; and that kinda focuses me back on what I should be doin. . . layout the real map on the world and how it is. The message is: young black males can do anything, if you just give us a shot, stop tryna beat us down, and to my homeboys, we need to be in control of ourselves."
"I'm not sayin I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain, that will change the world. So, keep ya head up. Do what you gotta do, and then. . . inside of you, I'll be reborn."
Eternal - Tupac Amaru Shakur