Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKURNelson 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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That’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.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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 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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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 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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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