We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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I live with truth.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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