I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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We need to read history from the source.
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I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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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 live with truth.
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People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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 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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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