I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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