When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
AFENI SHAKURI learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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I live with truth.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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