I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURThe worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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 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 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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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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We need to read history from the source.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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