Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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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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 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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