I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUREven after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
More Afeni Shakur Quotes
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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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We need to read history from the source.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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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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