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

That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.

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

I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.

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.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

I’ve gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.