All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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 live with truth.
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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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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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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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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 need to read history from the source.
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