The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKURI have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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 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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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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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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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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