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.
AFENI SHAKURI have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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 need to read history from the source.
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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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I live with truth.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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