I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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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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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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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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