I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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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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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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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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Everything Tupac said was introspective. He was really honest with himself about himself. He knew his flaws, but he also had such love for his work and his people.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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