We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I live with truth.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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 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 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 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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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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