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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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 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 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 cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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