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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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 must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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