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.
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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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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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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 read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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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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