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

I live with truth.

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

I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.

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

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

I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

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

Black history won’t stop no bullets.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We need to read history from the source.

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

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

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

It’s true what they say – the whole world stops when your child is born.