Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.
AFENI SHAKURBlack history won’t stop no bullets.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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 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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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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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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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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