That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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I live with truth.
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