Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

Nelson Mandela's contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

I live with truth.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don't live behind secrets, we don't live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

That's just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what's right - and for what we do wrong. That's one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur

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