We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKUR
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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 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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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