We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURI read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 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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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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 need to read history from the source.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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