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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

Afeni Shakur

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUR

Mom Myself Remember Slave Work
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 SHAKUR

Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Daughter Happiness Live Myself Secret
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Criticism Oneself Son Time
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKUR

Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
Everything Tupac said was introspective. He was really honest with himself about himself. He knew his flaws, but he also had such love for his work and his people.
AFENI SHAKUR

Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Punishment Special Time Training
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR

History Need Reading Source
I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Black History Stop Weapon
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKUR

Archive Job Material Myself Son
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Better Myself Thinking Wake Up

I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

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