Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKURNelson 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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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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 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 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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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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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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