I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKURI just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURI think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKURBlack history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKURI might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKUREverything 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.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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 SHAKUREven after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURFor 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.
AFENI SHAKURI believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURI have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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