I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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I live with truth.
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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 critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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