When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKURRevolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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