I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 live with truth.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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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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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from 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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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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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