Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKURPac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.
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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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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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