I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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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I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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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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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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Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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