I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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I spent 43 years of my life in anger and I know what it can do… Now I pray a lot. I do whatever I need to do to keep me out of that anger, out of that place where I can’t grow and be better.
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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.
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I 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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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Nelson 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.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I live with truth.
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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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