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People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.

Afeni Shakur

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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Deep Honest Humanity Myself Person Son
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.
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Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
We need to read history from the source.
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History Need Reading Source
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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Daughter Happiness Live Myself Secret
People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.
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Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
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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Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Mom Myself Remember Slave Work
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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College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
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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Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
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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Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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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Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time

People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.

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