I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
-
-
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
AFENI SHAKUR -
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR -
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKUR -
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 SHAKUR -
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKUR -
For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
AFENI SHAKUR -
People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.
AFENI SHAKUR