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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.

Afeni Shakur

All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Himself Myself Opportunity Story
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Money Myself Son
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
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
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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Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
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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Addiction Myself Need Obsession Work
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
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
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
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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Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
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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Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Responsibility Worst Wrong Yourself

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