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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

Afeni Shakur

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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
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
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
I live with truth.
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Live One Liner Truth
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
AFENI SHAKUR

Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
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 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
I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
AFENI SHAKUR

Archive Job Material Myself Son
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.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
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

I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

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