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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.

Afeni Shakur

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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I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that’s ok.
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I live with truth.
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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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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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All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
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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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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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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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The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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I might be the only one who’s never taken a dime from my son.
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I have respect for my son because he had sense enough to take responsibility for his own actions.
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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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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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We need to read history from the source.
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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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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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