We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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 live with truth.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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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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