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 SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
-
-
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKUR -
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKUR -
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKUR -
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 SHAKUR -
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR -
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUR -
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.
AFENI SHAKUR -
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKUR -
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
AFENI SHAKUR