Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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