Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKURWe need to read history from the source.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good 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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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 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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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 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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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 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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