The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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We need to read history from the source.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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 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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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