I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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 spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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