The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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