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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

We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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Angry Philosophy
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
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
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
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
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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
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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Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
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
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
I live with truth.
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Live One Liner Truth
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
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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 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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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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