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.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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 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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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