All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKURI just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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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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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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I live with truth.
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