Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURFor 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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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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 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 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 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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I live with truth.
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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