“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.”

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

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

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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.

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

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

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.

All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.

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.

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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

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

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

The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.

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

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.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Don’t waste your time on anything that doesn’t contribute to your growth.

Gratitude can shift your perspective, elevate your mood, and contribute to your goodness.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.