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

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.

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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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

I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

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

I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.

Never find fault with the absent.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Peace is not merely an absence of war. It is also a state of mind.

When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.

Absence, the highest form of presence.