Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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 live with truth.
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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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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.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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