Everything 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.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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 live with truth.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked.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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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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