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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.

Afeni Shakur

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
That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
AFENI SHAKUR

Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKUR

Black History Stop Weapon
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
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
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Communication Deep Myself Passion Place Raw Thinking Understand
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
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 read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKUR

Agreement Finding Myself Reading
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
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR

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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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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