Afeni Shakur Quotes

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I don't care much about conforming.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.