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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.

Afeni Shakur

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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
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
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
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
AFENI SHAKUR

Death Himself Live Powerful
That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
AFENI SHAKUR

Different Father Fight Myself Rebel
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Money Myself Son
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR

Constant Himself Life Love Reading
I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
AFENI SHAKUR

Children Help Learning Myself Save Time World
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
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Punishment Special Time Training
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKUR

Agreement Finding Myself Reading
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

Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
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 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

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