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.
AFENI SHAKUREven after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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 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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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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 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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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