Afeni Shakur Quotes

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Pope Francis reminds us of Pope John XXIII because both men share the same lack of self-consciousness, and neither needs to keep his guard up through the use of psychological defenses such as rationalization, projection or intellectualization.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

The most important connection I can see between my faith and my work is that in the progress of my day, I try to be restrained and mindful of every person's humanity and of the overwhelming challenge of pride.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Try and spread a lot of love and affection around the world. The most important thing is not to 'con' the public. Be real.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

I prefer to be a good human being rather than a good character on screen.

In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it's almost incomprehensible.

I'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.