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.
AFENI SHAKURI’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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I 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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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We need to read history from the source.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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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 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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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