That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURI wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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 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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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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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from 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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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