Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKURPeople 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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 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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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 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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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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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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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