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" As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end. "

" 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. "

" I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "

" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "

" I believe in myself and the justice I've fought for all my life. "

" I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years. "

" I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way. "

" 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 identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "

" I knew what it is to hate. "

" I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive. "

" I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong. "

" I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people. "

" I never talk about my private life. "

" In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that. "

" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "

" It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive. "

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

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

" I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too. "

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

" 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. "

" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "

" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "

" Nelson was locked up on Robben Island, and wives like me had been warned we would bring our husbands home as corpses from that place. But I always believed he would be released. It was my duty to have a home ready for us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politicians are not lovers. "

" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "

" 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. "

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