Quotes from Afeni Shakur

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans.

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

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.

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

We need to read history from the source.

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.

Black history won't stop no bullets.

The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.