Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURI have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
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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.
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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We need to read history from the source.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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.
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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.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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