I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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