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.
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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For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.
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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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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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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 believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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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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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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