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.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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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 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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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 live with truth.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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