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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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 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 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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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 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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