We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURAll we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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 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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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 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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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