I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKURI just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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