Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKURI 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.
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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.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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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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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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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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I live with truth.
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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?
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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.
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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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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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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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