I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURWe need to read history from the source.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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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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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 Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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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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I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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