Quotes

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?

When Tupac turned thirteen, we were homeless on that day. His theater club gave him a party. Sometimes I do wonder that if I hadn't gone on with fool-heartedness, my son would have had an easier transition into this life. But at least I was able to keep art there. Otherwise he would've had no way to get his feelings out.

We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.

I live with truth.

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

Everything Tupac said was introspective. He was really honest with himself about himself. He knew his flaws, but he also had such love for his work and his people.

People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.

We need to read history from the source.

We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.

That's what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can't help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.

I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do... Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can't grow and be better.

I wasn't available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would've been lost.

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.