We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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 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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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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That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
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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 live with truth.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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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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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