I live with truth.
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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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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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 need to read history from the source.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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 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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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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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