Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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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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 worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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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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 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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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.
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