Afeni Shakur Quotes

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

I always knew that I wanted to do the most that I could for the most people.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job.

Given how well the cards have been dealt to someone like myself, I think there's an inherent obligation to try to reach out and make a difference.

As I got more successful, I felt it was more incumbent upon me to help the other people. I did more and more and the more I did the more I wanted.

I'm just so very lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and giving back is a way for me to express my gratitude. I'm so lucky to be in a position to help people, and that's appealing to me.

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily, does not wait to be done by perfect men.

I think it's important for service to be a part of your life instead of an option. It's awesome to make it a point to do something that's gonna make the world slightly better than you left it.

I like giving back to the community, because it lasts a long time.

I feel like sometimes I'm in a position to really do some good, so I try to do that.

All we can do is just think about what we can put into the world - not really kind of what we can get out of it.

We feel like if we can give back, that's what we are called to do. So we've been fortunate to do a lot of really cool things and touch a lot of people's lives.

I do things - whether it's donations or events for good causes or giving back to my community - for the right reason: because I want to. Because it's the best thing to do. I wanna help someone else out. As far as all the attention for it, that's cool if I get it, but I'm not doing it for that reason. Stuff like that doesn't really phase me.

I just do what I can do to be one of the people who make a difference.

To do good, you actually have to do something.