All Quotes

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. ”

We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream. ”

This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. ”

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy. ”

No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us. ”

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment. ”

We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. ”

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. ”

I'm certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That's what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, 'I'm just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.' ”

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same. ”