Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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