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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.

Afeni Shakur

I live with truth.
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Live One Liner Truth
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Black History Stop Weapon
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
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
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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Art Deep Honest Humanity Myself Person Son
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
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
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
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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 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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Different Father Fight Myself Rebel
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
That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
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Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
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
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
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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Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
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
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
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
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Himself Myself Opportunity Story
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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Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
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
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
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

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