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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

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

Angry Philosophy
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.
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Angry Better Life Myself Need Place Time
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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Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
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
I read every agreement of every contract. Anything I put my signature on, I really do read them. And I find things.
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Agreement Finding Myself Reading
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
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
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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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 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 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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Art Creation Description Help Hope Maintain Myself
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
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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.
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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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Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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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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