Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUREverything 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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I live with truth.
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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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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 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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