Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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I live with truth.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 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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