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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

Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
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Art Children Deep Home Save
Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.
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Death Himself Live Powerful
The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son’s materials.
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Archive Job Material Myself Son
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 need to read history from the source.
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History Need Reading Source
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
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
When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
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Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
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
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
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
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
Pac was special. He was articulate. I trained him. Punishment for him was reading The New York Times.
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Himself Punishment Special Time Training
I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac’s entire body of work is made available for his fans.
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Believe Body Fans Myself Responsibility Work
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
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Criticism Oneself Son Time

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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