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We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.

Afeni Shakur

When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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

Communication Deep Myself Passion Place Raw Thinking Understand
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
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 have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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Himself Myself Right Shame
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
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Mom Myself Remember Slave Work
I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
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Addiction Myself Need Obsession Work
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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College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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 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
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
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
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
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Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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Money Myself Son

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