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  1. “Yeah so ambitious And in such a beautiful way, he had big dreams, big dreams, um. And he was so joyful. It was really joyful, but grounded. And that was the part that I missed. Grounded. It was like He'd been through some things and he was really intelligent. So he's what you call, you know, he could go from the hood to the White House and everywhere in between. Right, and I always find people like that fascinating. that have a wide range. Within them Places that they can go. You know, you drop Will anywhere and he's gonna figure it out and fit in.”

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  2. “Don't judge a book by its cover. That's what Will Smith taught me. It was like not to judge a book by its cover. I learned that, you know, years later when we had an opportunity to have, you know, we had a mutual friend. And so we were able to share some time at Jerry's Deli over a meal. And I got to see a totally different side of him. Wayne”

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  3. “I wouldn't say he I wouldn't say soft I would just say that He didn't seem deep. And I talk about this in the book how at that time a troubled dude seemed deep to me versus just troubled. Like, stay away from the troubled. Right. And so he wasn't troubled. It didn't seem to be, right? And so I was like, that's not deep. Like, he just seems like, you know, just didn't draw me in that way.”

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  4. “Yeah, exactly, and he was a rebel in that way. And I think people really. At points in his career Know he could speak, he would speak for the community, and then at points of his career he would speak from that really intimate place of woundedness. Yeah, you know that so many of us Relate it to Nobody was speaking to us in that way. That could go from ambitions of a rider. To shed so many tears to a soldier's story? Come on. Come on You know, to, I mean, he had so, he could speak to us from so many different angles.”

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  5. “And he was unapologetic, so he's going to give you his intelligence. He's going to give you his fear. He's going to give you his pain. He's going to give you his anger. Know he's going to give you his sympathy, he's going to give you his understanding. Right It was coming from That heart space, that real space within. It wasn't a gimmick. It wasn't like, oh, I'm going to talk about this because this is what's hot. No. You know, right, wrong or indifferent. He gave you his truth. And some truths people could rock with them and some truths you couldn't, you know what I mean? But regardless, it was what was real for him at that time. He was always authentic.”

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  6. “He wore his heart on his sleeve, and he could join you. So, what I mean by joining you is that he's not talking at you. He's talking with you. He had a way of being able to Speak about subject matters He's gonna sit with you in your broken heart and speak to you from there because he knows that broken heart. He's lived that broken heart. And whether it's your broken heart, whether it's your rage. But he just knew how to penetrate those emotional spaces in people. And that's what I mean by joining you. He knew how to join you emotionally. In so many different verticals of emotion. You know, he was supremely intelligent as well. He was so authentic also and so raw that I think was really refreshing as well. He gave you him.”

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  7. “I knew he was going to go to do something. I did not know he would become Tupac, we know him to be, but I knew he was going to do something great.”

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  8. “I just understood him. Just understand me, and he understood me. You really got me. And he really knew how to pull my coattails in ways that a lot of people didn't. And same for me with him. I just knew How to reach him in ways that, and that had everything to, and I think because. We didn't have That kind of, I think sometimes physical intimacy can really get in the way. You know, and I think that God just made it that way in which God was like, no, no, no, I need you to be, I got a plan. So that's not part of the plan.”

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  9. “But never physically intimate. A lot of emotional intimacy, a lot of intellectual intimacy. We just knew how to reach each other in ways that was very difficult. We knew how to get around each other's walls. And we didn't get offended when we would fall into our defaults of defense, which could be pretty fierce between the two of us. He was quite. A powerhouse, and so was I. We could be very challenging when we got riled up. So arguments, we were very passionate. But because we were one and the same in that way, we kind of understood that language was like, oh, this joke is good. You know what I mean? So we didn't get offended a lot until one particular time, which comes later in the book.”

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  10. “I know, people have had a really hard time, you know, understanding that Pock and I had a hard time understanding why Just didn't, we didn't have it. And I talk about it in the book, you know, that being on the back of porch of my house and we're like having this discussion. I'm like, okay, Pac, just kiss me. And he kisses me, and it's the most disgusting kiss between us both. He pulled back just like, and I pulled back, and I was like, see, dummy, you know. And from there, it was just like, and then there was one more time. He kissed me and it was just like, and I talk about that, and JL when I go to see him in Dan O'Mora. A whole nother thing. And once again, it's just like. Doesn't work, but throughout the Our relationship We definitely had this beautiful closeness. That was really intimate.”

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  11. “Different name. I was like Tupac. And he had this big smile. And I was like, it's not a lot of people that have that kind of like charisma and courage to just walk up on me on just like, I'm Tupac. I'm, you know what I mean? You need to know me, you know. And right from there, inseparable, we became the best of friends from that moment on. We just connected. It was as if we already knew each other. It's crazy.”

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  12. “Yeah, first day of school Baltimore School for the Arts. And as soon as I walk in, he's holding court. He's holding court. He's a charismatic from day one. He's holding court. And I'm like, who's that peanut hair dude over there? And I'm coming in. I'm rocking. I'm walking in. I got the rat tail. I got the fly clothes, you know. And he turns and we. Her eyes just meet. And I'm like, oh. And then, you know, I'm going to hold my court, you know. And so then he comes over. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. Yeah, whatever. And so he comes over and he's like, hey, I'm Tupac. And I'm like, Tupac, the name from the gate was just like, I never heard her name like that before. That was such a powerful.”

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  13. “Exactly. Yeah, it was. And I still to this day, you know, people like, you know, I still to this day have to like. Manage that because it's just Just in me, it's just part of me. Because it was such Was something that was built at the foundation. You know, it was in my DNA before. Yes, my default. So it's like, and I do it well. I can just, you won't know anything that's going on. But like you said, it's like, well, then you don't give yourself an opportunity to make the connections that you really want to have.”

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  14. “And I bet you Warren has no idea that how much that conversation and the time that he spent with me really meant to me is really awesome because he was so respectful and Really honored where I sat. Where you didn't get that often in Hollywood. It was just like, no, you got to change this. You got to do this different. You'll never get jobs like that. I was just like, well, then I won't work. I was very rebellious sometimes in that way. But yeah, he really stuck with me. And from that day on, I just started on the journey of trying to figure out how to not lose myself. But also feel. Find a way to feel Safe to take that approach because like I said, I was around Wolves all the time, so I had to always be on guard. I had to always have this tough exterior. I always had to carry the attitude like, I'm not the one.”

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  15. “I wasn't in survival anymore, you know, and Talk about this in the book, you know how Warren Beatty, bless him, he was probably one of the first people that was just like, hey. You're in Hollywood now, okay? I get it. But why don't you allow people to see some other aspects that charm you have, that smile you have? Like let's take that chip off your shoulder a little bit, you know? And he was the first person really to talk to me in a way that wasn't like making me wrong. Right? He didn't make me wrong. For being who I was. He was just like, there's so much more to you. People see that. You know, and that was the first time I actually listened because he didn't make me wrong.”

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  16. “I think just that edge that I came with no. Know having no fucks to give basically. It was just like, I'm here to do me. And I got something to offer. And if you can't see it, well, then that's on you. Your loss. You know, just that kind of attitude and just kind of like, you know, I wasn't your prim proper demure. Young lady, you know, I was just kind of like, I was just rough, rugged. Rambunctious”

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  17. “Rough around the edges, yeah, because I mean, it was part of what was refreshing for a lot of people. But it was also the thing that was standoffish too, right?”

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  18. “It prepared me in a way because I was running with killers. It's as simple as that, right? So the Hollywood flex. Know dudes who were Presenting themselves as like these powerful, you know, if you don't do what I say, like, bruh, honestly? It just didn't resonate that way for me. I just looked at it. I looked at all of that as just kind of like.”

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  19. “Yeah, well, you know, I thought I was going to be the next big time female drug dealer, you know. And I really, I was, I was crazy. I absolutely was just a nut because I had no fear whatsoever. I was absolutely fearless to be rolling with these wolves like this. Like it was nothing. Like it was absolutely nothing. I think about that today. I think of my. I'm like, what the I don't know And that's when I know, and I think back on everything that I've been through, I was like, there is a God for sure. There was a God. Because that dude... For me to even want to see his face again was like, I want my shit back. And he had it for me. He was like, There you go, you know. And so, but it prepared me for Hollywood. It prepared me. It prepared me big time.”

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  20. “And I'm just, I don't know what kind of crazy nut I was at that time. I was just so All I could say is just out of my mind. Like, I was just in such an alter reality. I really thought I was going to be the next cream pan, first of all.”

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  21. “We actually, that person whose wing I was under, he made for a meeting for us to meet in that area a couple of days later. He was like, you're not going to get your money back, you're not going to get the drugs back, but maybe there might be some pieces of jewelry of yours that he'll, you know, he hasn't sold yet. And he was exactly right. He had, you know, a couple chains or whatever. And I told her, I asked him, I said, you know. Why'd you just leave me there? Like, and he said you were too pretty. And that was the first time. And I talk about this in the book. That was the first time that was like, well, maybe I am pretty because. Omni, I am pretty because, you know, he, because this was a stone cold killer. And I talk about even when I met him how he looked like he had never felt. Any kind of love in his life.”

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  22. “I could tell as he was leaving, you know, it's so interesting when you're in moments like that. I can still see his eyes as he's leaving me and how he's making a choice in the moment of what he's going to do with me. and by the grace of God. He left me there Well, when, of course, my crazy self, because of who. Because of the protection that I was under at the time, I called that person. I was like, I just got robbed. He knew exactly. He knew exactly. He's like, I know who this is. Don't worry about anything. I was like, I want my shit back. And so”

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  23. “I was, I had posted up in the projects and this apartment on the bottom floor where I would sell drugs out of the window or through the door of that particular apartment. And somebody set me up to make a long story short. Somebody set me up. And as I was making the exchange through the door that had the chain on it. Two guys from the side of the door, which I couldn't see because I'm looking through the peephole. Two guys from the side of the door come around and kick the door in. Pull out guns, point them to me, and take all my money, my jewelry, and stash. And I was really lucky to make it out of that alive for sure because the person who led that robbery ended up killing. Two drug dealers Two weeks or a month after, put him in a. Them in a trunk, shot the trunk up. And ah murdered. And he ended up doing life for that.”

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  24. “Listen, getting two nine millimeters pointed at you at one time, one to your head, you would think that's a big wake-up call.”

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  25. “You don't have time to be scared. That environment was a war zone, right? And so it's like stuff was popping off all the time. So you just get used to a certain level of violence. You get used to a certain level of Just vigilance because that's what you're given So you just learn to adapt to that kind of environment. So the levels, what somebody might consider dangerous. For me, it was just normal. Wasn't like, ooh, I'm going into something crazy here. You know, it's like, shit, everything's crazy. So what, right? So I look at it now and I go, what in the world, you know, but I'm living a different reality. In that time, when I was living that reality. That's what life was. And everybody What we were all living.”

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  26. “Offer me the security that I didn't have at home. An opportunity for me to create that security that I didn't have at home.”

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  27. “When I would see, you know, the high rollers, the hustlers, I was like, oh, that's what I want. You know, I want to. Have the Mercedes. I want to have big wads of cash in my pocket. I want to have friends around me that will protect me and I want to be able to have security and stability created by my own hands. I don't want to depend on anybody. Not only do I not want to depend on anybody, I can't depend on anyone. And so the streets That's where I saw security. Because we didn't have doctors and lawyers to Look upon, you know, like that's the aspiration, right? Because in our neighborhoods, that's what we had. We had hustlers. And they had the good life. So you could be a hustler or you could be a hustler's girlfriend. I wasn't trying to be the girl. I wasn't trying to be the girlfriend. I To that lifestyle”

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  28. “It's devastating. It's devastating. I mean, I completely abandoned feeling like I could depend on anyone. Which is why I just took to the streets. I was like, you know what? I'm going to figure out. How to make money, gain power, and create a situation where I can protect myself and my mother. And make sure just in case she doesn't make it, I'm gonna be okay.”

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  29. “At that time. And so You can't negotiate. That is either you want to get help, you know, or you have to sometimes have to make clean breaks. I know that now. And you don't always know how to play the middle. You know, and so I get it.”

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  30. “Which I understand, you know, as an adult now looking back and looking at the circumstances. Know he did the best that he could. He's a man that was trying to get his life together. And my mother was deep in her addiction.”

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  31. “Yeah, for sure. And I think That probably is probably more. Subconscious, unconscious than that which the abuse of drugs and the How that reflected to me that I wasn't. in a certain manner that Why is it that this particular substance has more power over attention, more power, more influence? Then me to the point that your father will tell you. I'm relinquishing my Parental rights because I'd rather be a criminal on a drug addict than try to get my shit together for you. The way I interpreted that. And at the same time, it was like just thank you for being honest instead of sitting up here pretending like you're doing something different. Thank you. Which a lot of people would do.”

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  32. “I don't know. If it helped me understand myself as much as it helped me understand my mother. And then that helped me understand a lot of how her journey has imprinted upon me in a certain manner, you know. So I guess it does if you, you know, through my mother and her journey help me understand her journey, which has affected me. So yeah, I guess you could say that it helped me understand myself more.”

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  33. “Absolutely. I mean, my mother talks about it to this day. Choke up, she'll, you know, cry. You don't get over things in the sense of like, it's forgotten. You know, you learn to cope with it. You heal in a certain manner, but it still can leave a certain imprint upon you. And even hearing those stories are not easy, you know, even as an adult, because she didn't really give me the details until I was. I mean, my kids would dag on their adults before she shared with me. The level of violence that she dealt with with my dad.”

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  34. “Validation, but also an outlet. It was a real outlet for me, where I was able to express certain feelings that I didn't feel like I had the permission to express at home. And It was a huge It was a huge outlet for me in that way. I mean, to the point that. My theater teachers would often tell me, you know, they'd try to steer me into like, why don't you try more comedic roles? You know, I was always going for the very dramatic, very highly emotional, you know. And I just remember my theater teachers always trying to guide me into diversifying the monologues that I would choose for my pieces to work on in class.”

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  35. “Yeah, I did. I did. I wanted to be an actress. I started very young. I was doing theater, I think my first professional gig was like seven years old as one of Madame Bonbon's children in the nutcracker. And then I was in different theatrical programs in the summertime and what have you. And then when I got the opportunity to join Twiggs, which prepared you for Baltimore School for the Arts, I joined that after school program. So arts has always been a big part of my life.”

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  36. “I was seven and dumb. He just said, he said, look, I'm an addict and a criminal, and I can't be your father. And I was like, Now mind you, he hadn't really been in my life that much anyway. I didn't really know he wasn't present in my life enough for me to even know what it was like to have a father. What I did appreciate in that moment was like, wow, just thank you. Thank you for like being honest. Now, I didn't realize at that time because I was so young how that would affect. My relationships with men ongoing, you know, as an adult woman. But yeah, in that moment, I was just like. Thank you. Somebody is like being honest with me. I'm not crazy. Something is absolutely not right here and he's letting me know what that is. And he's saying hey. Gonna keep my distance, you know.”

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  37. “Yeah, I definitely had it with my grandmother, and then once she passed. That's when I took to the streets to figure out. My home, finding my tribe, finding my power, finding my identity, finding my purpose, finding my worth.”

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  38. “Feeling like a priority to the people who brought me into the world. Now, thank goodness my grandmother came into the picture, you know, and she really, she was a beautiful, powerful mirror for me that, you know, even to my, you know, it's still a mirror for me to this day where I could see myself. I could see Beauty of myself, I could see my gifts and my talents was through her and what she was reflecting back to me. But I think it's important that I think it's important if it's possible for children to feel that sense of A sense of importance, that sense of priority from their parents.”

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  39. “Because it's true, you know, it's like our parents are like our first mirrors. And so my parents were really young when they had me. I mean, my mom was 17, right? 17, 18. She was 17 when she was pregnant. I think she was 18 by the time she had me. So youth on top of. Addiction I just realized, you know, as I was going through my life and different therapeutic settings, I was like, oh, wow, like the first mirror I had. Was kind of non existent in a way because Drugs were my parents' priority. During my upbringing and so I didn't really get the reflection of.”

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  40. “Somebody set me up and then I had to always have this tough exterior now as I'm dismantling my defenses. I'm in a really wrong place.”

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  41. “I really thought I was going to be the next big time female drug dealer. I was absolutely fearless. But getting two to nine millimeters pointed at you.”

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  42. “I was in a cycle of self-hatred, and it was just a really dark time. I went out, and I knew I had to make it look like an accident because I did not want my kids to think that I had committed”

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