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.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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 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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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