Afeni Shakur Quotes

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Afeni Shakur

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 10, 1947

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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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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Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

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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 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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Black history won't stop no bullets.

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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.

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Arts can save children, no matter what's going on in their homes.

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That's what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can't help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.

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I live with truth.

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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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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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