I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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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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 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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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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