We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUREverything 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 SHAKURWe need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKURI never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKURI wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURWhatever 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 SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
AFENI SHAKURIn the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURFor 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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