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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.

Afeni Shakur

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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

Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR

Constant Himself Life Love Reading
I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Money Myself Son
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
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
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKUR

Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility 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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
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

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