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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

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Himself Punishment Special Time Training
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
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.
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Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
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.
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Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Angry Philosophy
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
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
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.
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College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
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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Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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
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

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