The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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 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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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