“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.”

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

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.

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

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.

As much as I would love to contribute to the population growth of this town by way of teen pregnancies I must decline.

Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness.

It’s rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.