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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.

Afeni Shakur

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

Daughter Happiness Live Myself Secret
I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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Addiction Myself Need Obsession Work
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 wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
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
I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Children Help Learning Myself Save Time World
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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Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
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.
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Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
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
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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Agreement Finding Myself Reading
I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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Himself Myself Right Shame
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
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
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.

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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food. I could only have what was there.

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