I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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I live with truth.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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