Afeni Shakur Quotes

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Afeni Shakur

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 10, 1947

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 Shakur

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

Afeni Shakur

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.

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I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.

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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.

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Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

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When Tupac turned thirteen, we were homeless on that day. His theater club gave him a party. Sometimes I do wonder that if I hadn't gone on with fool-heartedness, my son would have had an easier transition into this life. But at least I was able to keep art there. Otherwise he would've had no way to get his feelings out.

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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

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I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it.

Afeni Shakur

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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First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one. But I happen to be blessed that my son gave me all these things to work with so that I get to work out my grief in a way that other people are not able to. So I can't possibly be downtrodden about that.

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I'm grateful my son was - as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

Afeni Shakur

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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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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

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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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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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I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.

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