I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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.
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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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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 worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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 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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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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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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