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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

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR

History Need Reading Source
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKUR

Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
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
I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
AFENI SHAKUR

Action Enough Himself Respect Responsibility
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Criticism Oneself Son Time
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Philosophy
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Deep Honest Humanity Myself Person Son
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Money Myself Son
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKUR

Archive Job Material 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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