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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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 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 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
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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Different Father Fight Myself Rebel
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 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
I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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Action Enough Himself Respect Responsibility
We need to read history from the source.
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History Need Reading Source
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
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 miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.
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Day Missing Myself Son Thankful
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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
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
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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Himself Myself Opportunity Story
That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.
AFENI SHAKUR

Life Love Myself Prayer Song Way Willing

That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

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That’s just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what’s right – and for what we do wrong. That’s one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

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