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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.

Afeni Shakur

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
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
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
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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Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Money Myself Son
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
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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Agreement Finding Myself Reading
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
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 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
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
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

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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