That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKURI might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.
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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 live with truth.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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