I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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 worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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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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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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