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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

Afeni Shakur

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKUR

Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKUR

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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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
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 cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Philosophy
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
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
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
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
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
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 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 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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
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

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