All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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 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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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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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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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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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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