Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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I live with truth.
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