Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKURI just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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