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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

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 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 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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Myself Right Shame
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
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Black History Stop Weapon
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 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
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
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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKUR

Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
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
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 think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking

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