I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKURI believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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 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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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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 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 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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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