That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 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 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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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