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I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

Afeni Shakur

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
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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Choice Movie Music Myself Producer
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
Nelson Mandela’s contribution to the people of South Africa has been immeasurable and I look forward to helping with his work all over the country.
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Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Himself Myself Opportunity Story
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
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Black History Stop Weapon
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 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
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time
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
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
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
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
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Angry Burn Consume Justice Yourself
I live with truth.
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Live One Liner Truth
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
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 learned that I can’t save the world, but I can help a child at a time.
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Children Help Learning Myself Save Time World
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 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
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
AFENI SHAKUR

Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility 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
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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Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
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Artist Himself Revolution Worth Young
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 never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.

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