I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKURI have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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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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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 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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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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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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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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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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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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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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