Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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 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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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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