In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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 wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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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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I live with truth.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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.
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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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