I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKURThat’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.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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I live with truth.
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We need to read history from the source.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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 people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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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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