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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

I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Available Children Lost Myself Right 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.
AFENI SHAKUR

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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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

Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
AFENI SHAKUR

Responsibility Worst Wrong Yourself
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
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
AFENI SHAKUR

Art Children Deep Home Save
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
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
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
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR

History Need Reading Source
I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
AFENI SHAKUR

Goodness Grateful Mom Myself Son
I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Daughter Happiness Live Myself Secret

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