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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.

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.
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Bright Give Up Impact Light People Time
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
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
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Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
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
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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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
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
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I’m grateful my son was – as any mother would say, I had a very good son.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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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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Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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That’s what Tupac and I got from my dad – the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.
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The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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I’m not a filmmaker. I’m not a music producer by choice.
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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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