All Quotes

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long. ”

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. ”

I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. ”

I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy. ”

I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after. ”

The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear. ”

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife. ”

I never talk about my private life. ”

It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. ”

I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort. ”