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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

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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Artist Different Myself Personality Perspective Poetry Side
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
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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Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
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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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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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
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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Flaw Himself Honesty Love People Work
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
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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I learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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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 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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