I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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 need to read history from the source.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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I live with truth.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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 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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