Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKUR
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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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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