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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.

Afeni Shakur

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 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.
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Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
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
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 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
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 live with truth.
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Live One Liner Truth
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 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
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 have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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Action Enough Himself Respect Responsibility
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
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
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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College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
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

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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