All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKURTupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 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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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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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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