All Quotes by Afeni Shakur
“Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?”
“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.”
“Black history won't stop no bullets.”
“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.”
“We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.”
“We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.”
“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 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.”