I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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 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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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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