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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

Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Punishment Special Time Training
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Community Goodness Himself Need People Person Substance Worth
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKUR

Black History Stop Weapon
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

College Impact Notice Oneself People Revolution Skill System Young
We need to read history from the source.
AFENI SHAKUR

History Need Reading Source
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
AFENI SHAKUR

Agreement Finding Myself Reading
We cannot go anywhere with anger that we haven’t already been.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Philosophy
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
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 live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth

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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