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.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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 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 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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 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 live with truth.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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