Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I live with truth.
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I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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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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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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