I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURWhatever 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.
AFENI SHAKURI just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
AFENI SHAKURAll we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
AFENI SHAKURBlack history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKURI believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKURArts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURThe worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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