I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 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 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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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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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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I have no secrets. Neither did Tupac, neither does my daughter. We don’t live behind secrets, we don’t live lies, we are who we are, and we are pretty happy to be who we are.
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