I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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 just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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 cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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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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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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