Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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 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 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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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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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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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 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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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