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 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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I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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 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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