We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
AFENI SHAKURWhen I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKURNelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
AFENI SHAKURI wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURPeople 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 SHAKURI have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKURThe worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKUREverything 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 SHAKURAnger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
AFENI SHAKURI think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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