The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKURI have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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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 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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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