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.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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.
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That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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 know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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