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 SHAKUREverything 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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Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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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 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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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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Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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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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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.
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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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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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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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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Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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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.
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