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 SHAKURThe Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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 might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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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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.
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The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don’t take responsibility for what you did wrong.
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Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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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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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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