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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?
- Afeni Shakur
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#Will
I wasn't available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would've been lost.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Lost
#Right
#Son
#Things
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
- Afeni Shakur
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#New
#Punishment
#Reading
#Special
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 Shakur
#Better
#Day
#Every Day
#I Can
#Wake Up
I'm not a filmmaker. I'm not a music producer by choice.
- Afeni Shakur
#Choice
#Filmmaker
#Music
#Producer
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Responsibility
#Worst
#Wrong
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Cannot
#Hunger
#Justice
#Must
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.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Flaws
#Love
#People
#Work
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.
- Afeni Shakur
#Day
#Never
#One Day
#Right
#Son
I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
- Afeni Shakur
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#He
#Own
#Respect
#Responsibility
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
- Afeni Shakur
#Factory
#Great
#Mother
#Please
#Remember
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.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Personality
#Poetry
#See
#Time
That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
- Afeni Shakur
#Back
#Dad
#Fight
#Need
#Rebellion
I'm grateful my son was - as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
- Afeni Shakur
#Good
#Grateful
#Mother
#Say
#Son
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
- Afeni Shakur
#Culture
#History
#Know
#Movement
#Rights
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.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Deep
#Did
#Place
#Understood
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.
- Afeni Shakur
#Art
#Day
#Feelings
#Life
#Way
I might be the only one who's never taken a dime from my son.
- Afeni Shakur
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#Might
#Never
#Only
#Son
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
- Afeni Shakur
#Anything
#Every
#Find
#Signature
#Things
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.
- Afeni Shakur
#Africa
#Country
#Look
#People
#Work
I learned that I can't save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
- Afeni Shakur
#Child
#Help
#I Can
#Time
#World
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.
- Afeni Shakur
#Anger
#Grow
#Life
#Me
#My Life
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven't already been.
- Afeni Shakur
#Anger
#Anywhere
#Been
#Cannot
#Go
Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
- Afeni Shakur
#Change
#Impossible
#Me
#People
#Trust
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