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.
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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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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I live with truth.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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 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 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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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