The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKURWhatever 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized 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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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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 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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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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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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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