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I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.

Afeni Shakur

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKUR

Responsibility Worst Wrong Yourself
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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
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
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUR

Mom Myself Remember Slave Work
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

Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
AFENI SHAKUR

Action Enough Himself Respect Responsibility
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 SHAKUR

Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Myself Right Shame
I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKUR

Children Help Learning Myself Save Time World
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKUR

Death Himself Live Powerful
Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
AFENI SHAKUR

Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
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
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR

Constant Himself Life Love Reading
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKUR

Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth

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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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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