Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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