That’s what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.
AFENI SHAKURThe worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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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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