I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURTupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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