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 SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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