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 SHAKURTupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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