I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKURTupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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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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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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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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I live with truth.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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 just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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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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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I 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.
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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 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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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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