Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKURAnger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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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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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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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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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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