I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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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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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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We need to read history from the source.
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