That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURI have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I live with truth.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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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 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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