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 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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized 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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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 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 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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