I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKURI believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
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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 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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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I wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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