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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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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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 live with truth.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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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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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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