That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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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 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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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 spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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I live with truth.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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 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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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like 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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