I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKURNelson 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I live with truth.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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 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 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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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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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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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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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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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