We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKURI might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
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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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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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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 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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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 art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
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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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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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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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