We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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