Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKURArts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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 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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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 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 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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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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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