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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.

Afeni Shakur

Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKUR

Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
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

Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
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

Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
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

Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
AFENI SHAKUR

Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR

Constant Himself Life Love Reading
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKUR

Archive Job Material Myself Son
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Punishment Special Time Training
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 Myself Thinking Wake Up
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Philosophy
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Children Deep Home Save
I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKUR

Addiction Myself Need Obsession Work
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
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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Agreement Finding Myself Reading

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