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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

I just need to do Pac’s work. I just need to. Maybe because I’m a recovering addict, I’m obsessed like that.
AFENI SHAKUR

Addiction Myself Need Obsession 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When I carried Tupac, when I was five months pregnant they put me back in jail, my bail was revoked. When my bail was revoked, I was not allowed to have my own food.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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Carry Food Myself Pregnant Prison
All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.
AFENI SHAKUR

Himself Myself Opportunity Story
Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.
AFENI SHAKUR

Constant Himself Life Love Reading
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
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Contribution Country Help Measurement Myself People Work
We must recognize that anger only agitates and incites. It cannot squelch or satisfy the hunger for justice.
AFENI SHAKUR

Angry Feeling Justice Recognition Satisfaction
Black history won’t stop no bullets.
AFENI SHAKUR

Black History Stop Weapon
Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.
AFENI SHAKUR

Mom Myself Remember Slave Work
I never wanted to he just a housewife. I was too restless.
AFENI SHAKUR

Feeling Home Myself Rest Wife
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
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
I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he’s been gone than they did when he was here.
AFENI SHAKUR

Absence Death Myself People Presence Thinking
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Better Myself Thinking Wake Up
I live with truth.
AFENI SHAKUR

Live One Liner Truth
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.
AFENI SHAKUR

Communication Deep Myself Passion Place Raw Thinking Understand

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