We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUREven after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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