All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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I live with truth.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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