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.
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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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 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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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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 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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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