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.
AFENI SHAKURThe critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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 wake up every day and think everything sure is awful, but then I ask the Lord what I can do to make it better.
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I live with truth.
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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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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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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Whatever 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.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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