I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
AFENI SHAKUR
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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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We need to read history from the source.
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