I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURI live with truth.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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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 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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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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