I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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