Grandmother Quote by Afeni Shakur

“Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.”

Afeni Shakur

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I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice.

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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans.

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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 wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it…

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

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

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