I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURI’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKURWhen I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKURIn the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURWe must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKURI might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
AFENI SHAKURI think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
AFENI SHAKURWe cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKURTupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKURI wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
AFENI SHAKURI 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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