In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
Black history won't stop no bullets.
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
I wasn't available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would've been lost.
Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes.
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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.
That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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.
I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it.
I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one. But I happen to be blessed that my son gave me all these things to work with so that I get to work out my grief in a way that other people are not able to. So I can't possibly be downtrodden about that.
I'm grateful my son was - as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it's worth a lot.
