Afeni Shakur quotes

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

I live with truth.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Black history won't stop no bullets.