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.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 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 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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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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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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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