I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKURPlease remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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