I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKURI have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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 know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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.
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