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.
AFENI SHAKUREven after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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 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’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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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That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
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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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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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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 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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We need to read history from the source.
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