I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKURI never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKURWhen I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKURI learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKURThat’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURIn the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURThe worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
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.
AFENI SHAKUR