That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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I live with truth.
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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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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 critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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For 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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We need to read history from the source.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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