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" I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for. "
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Ideas
Identify
Malcolm X
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" The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family. "
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" 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. "
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" I never talk about my private life. "
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Never
" I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. "
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" There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known. "
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" 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. "
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" We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. "
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World
Responsibility
" They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become. "
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Try
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" I often wonder why I attract so much criticism. "
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Wonder
Much
" 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. "
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Place
Me
" It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain. "
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Gain
Most
" You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle. "
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Struggle
Only
" I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone. "
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Person
Flowers
" It dawned on me then that you either had to survive apartheid, or you had to perish with it. And I decided to survive. "
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Apartheid
Had
Survive
" I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong. "
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Women
Lost
Men
" Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down. "
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Down
Us
Prison
" Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out. "
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Those
My Soul
Out
" I knew what it is to hate. "
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Hate
Knew
" 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. "
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" 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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You
" My continent knows more about me than I do myself. "
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Than
Myself
" You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid. "
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You
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Never
" I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything. "
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Am
Everything
" This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family. "
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Necks
Mandela
" 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. "
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