That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURI 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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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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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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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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 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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
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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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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 worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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 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 need to read history from the source.
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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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