I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKURBlack history won’t stop no bullets.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Everything Tupac said was introspective. He was really honest with himself about himself. He knew his flaws, but he also had such love for his work and his people.
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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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