That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURIn the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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