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

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.

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.

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.

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

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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 international community would like to see an agreement in Libya before Ramadan, let me be very cautious about the possibilities for an agreement.

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions.

I think the Israeli people understand now what I always say: that there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan.