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.
AFENI SHAKURFor me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We need to read history from the source.
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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 not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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 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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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