Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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 think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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 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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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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 just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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