Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURBlack history won’t stop no bullets.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 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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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from 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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