In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKURWhatever 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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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I live with truth.
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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 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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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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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 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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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