The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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 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 wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I live with truth.
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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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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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