... were all filmed in four years. Besides being a poet, actor, and rapper, he remembered as a teenager living in Baltimore, "We didn't have any lights. I used to sit outside be the streetlights and read the autobiography of Malcolm X. And then of course my mother had me read books by people like ... . Patrice Lumumba, Stokley Charmicheal, Bobby Seale, and George Jackson". To sum it up Tupac was raised on the knowledge of Black Nationalist, and was aware (as a child) ... U Gave Little Infants F*cks Everybody". Basically saying due to the oppression of Black America, America created a new ge...

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... , Afari Shakur who was a black panther activist. Growing up with the "black panther" mentality, he believed in knowledge is power, and that the pen was mightier then the sword. He was very aware of politics and what was going on socially and politically around him. Tupac also stood up for the people who he identified with the most, the street type, gangsters who ... most. With all the skeptics and haters who say that Tupac was a bad influence on young America, its hard to see the truth, that Tupac was a god given saint, that he was sent to deliver a message. In the words of Quincy Jones,...

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