When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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 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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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