I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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 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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That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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