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Black history won’t stop no bullets.

Afeni Shakur

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
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
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Black History Stop Weapon
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
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 think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.
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Communication Deep Myself Passion Place Raw Thinking Understand
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
We need to read history from the source.
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History Need Reading Source
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
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
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’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
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.
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Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
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
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 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

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