I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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