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

Afeni Shakur

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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
People can like him or not like him individually. But I need for them to know that he was a person of substance, and he was worthy, and he was a good son and a good brother and a good participant in the community.
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Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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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Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
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
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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Art Deep Honest Humanity Myself Person Son
I wasn’t available to do the right things for my son. If not for the arts, my child would’ve been lost.
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Art Available Children Lost Myself Right Son
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
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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Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
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
We need to read history from the source.
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History Need Reading Source
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
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Civil Culture History Movement Myself Right Yourself
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 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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Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
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
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUR

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

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

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