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.
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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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