Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURI wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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I live with truth.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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