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“I will not be bullied.”

“For all the ladies out there, yes we can do it.”

“I thought it was a great honor and privilege to be appointed to an agency that I love.”

“I do not believe that poverty is equal to degradation. For me, color restores people’s dignity.”

“The heart of it is drawing, starting where you don’t know quite what you’re doing and discovering what the drawing will be, rather than knowing the script in advance and following it.”

“Realistically speaking there is no such thing as failure.”

“We now ask for freedom and equal citizenship.”

“Football, for as long as I've known, has been my life.”

“A woman's body is her own, and she will never be really free until she knows how to look after it properly.”

“We do not think anything can be settled by the sword.”

“The best coaches are the ones with imagination.”

“If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes.”

“You wouldn't just down tools. It's not been in my nature to do that.”

“I'm not the despot I'm depicted as.”

“All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.”

“Māori had to live and work in a Pākehā world, but a Māori attending a tangihanga or a hui “comes back right into the middle of things Māori…he recharges his Māori batteries.””

“They made them strangers in the country of their own birth.”

“I started taking self-portraits simply to use up spare film.”

“How do you want to be remembered?”

“We accept no condition of inferiority as compared to the European people. Quite the contrary is the case. We called no man master and we had no king.”