

A month after her release, her son was born. The Black Panther Party ideology advocated armed self-defense against white violence, and many Panthers carried guns and had planned or attempted targeted bombings.Īfeni Shakur, serving as her own defense lawyer, still won acquittal in the spring of 1971, a minor miracle. In 1970, his mother, Afeni Shakur, was arrested along with 20 other New York Black Panther Party activists on bombing charges. Tupac Amaru Shakur's life had unusual beginnings. Why do you think I wrote 'Dear Mama'? I wrote it for my mama because I love her and I felt I owed her something deep." – Tupac Shakur, 1995 ( Source) I always play my music for her before it comes out. "Look around you in this studio right now. Songs that talk about strong, upstanding women and their pain.

I've written songs that show great love and respect for women, too. Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women.

"In real life, just like in Macbeth, all women are not just pure and true.
