Quotes from Afeni Shakur

I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.

If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

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

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

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

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.

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.

I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

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

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

Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes.

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

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

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

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

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

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