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.
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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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 never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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 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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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that 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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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 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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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