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 SHAKURI live with truth.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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 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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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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 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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.
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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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