Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR
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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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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 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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