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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.

Afeni Shakur

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
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.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
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.
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Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
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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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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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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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In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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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.
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