When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKURI wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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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 critics never ever one time fairly criticized my 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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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 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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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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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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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