All Quotes

"Empowerment starts with listening"

"My heart is committed to causes that build legacies, not headlines"

"Success is measured in lives touched"

"It is not so easy to come after your father in the sense of the expectations being so high back home and in Europe"

"My career has not been easy but I always keep on working hard and have belief in my qualities so I don't have any problems.""

"I've always thought that I was a good finisher, but sometimes you just need a bit of luck"

"This year, I've had quite a bit of luck, but luck doesn't just come like that, you need to provoke it. I've been working really, really hard on that but there's still room for improvement"

"People tell me that I don't have the killer instinct or aggressiveness in front of goal. But I am in a team where we need to work for each point"

"People tell me that I don't have the killer instinct or aggressiveness in front of goal. But I am in a team where we need to work for each point. I can't just stand up front and wait for the ball and try to take people on and shoot. There are other things I need to do and I enjoy doing them"

"I embrace change and adapt easily"

"everybody assumes that because I am black, I must speak isiZulu! I’m of South African descent, but the bulk of my experience has been in a totally different environment, culture and work ethic entirely."

"For me, resilience is not about how you fall, but how you get up"

"Financial advice has traditionally been a paper-heavy, face-to-face business"

"The move towards digitisation, both on the side of insurers and advisers, is playing a major role in driving down the costs of doing business while delivering better client experiences"

"The only way we’re going to meet these challenges is to transform – and that transformation must start with driving greater diversity and inclusion across the industry"

"Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there!"

"Have and own your voice as a young, ambitious woman, and do the work you need to, to be able to take your seat at the top table."

"Right now, our world and our people need a resilience revolution. And we, as women, are perfectly placed to lead it"

"Appoint more female professionals to increase gender equality and build trust"

"we must embrace greater diversity in our workplaces. In our thinking. In our levels of representation in gender, religion, race, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation and education"

"I’m driven by my love for life and by always striving to do the best in all I do"

"In my field, I’m passionate about how we ‘show up’ when people are at their most vulnerable and how we can ease the burdens of some of the most difficult realities of life."

"I think many women suffer from self-doubt and this is not because of their own doing"

"Women should be coached to put themselves out there, to have and own their voices, and to take up their seats at the table"

"One should have the business acumen and patience to build a sustainable business, rather than looking to make a quick buck"

"From a young age, I was taught to wake up early, work hard, never give up and never doubt mysel"

"Sorry guys, the thing is, when I write a poem I become a werewolf."

"My views become exactly the same as “those expressed in Germany”. What I mean is, I’m the whole of Nazism and the entire Second World War."

"When I write a poem “sexual and racial violence” burst out of me like wolf-fur through the rents in my smooth brown skin. I start howling at the moon and “inciting racial violence” all over the place."

"My daughter locks me in the bathroom and says through the door: Mum, stop that “racist violence dressed up as art”, because, Mum, “poor white people disaffected by the effects of globalism” couldn’t say those things."

"My daughter slumps down outside the bathroom door in tears and whispers: I’m tired of my “acceptable ethnicity”. We brown people have all the privileges now. We can say anything we like and get away with it."

"When I am under a full moon, I start writing a poem about colonisation, which is exactly the same as “inciting murder”. Writing a poem is the same as a “manifesto” justifying terrorism and massacre."

"Now, I’m howling and ripping off my clothes and writing a poem which is “inciting violence” right through the walls of my house."

"The neighbours hear me writing a poem about colonisation and they yell: Stop that “race-baiting”, our kids are trying to sleep."

"Later, my white neighbour will come over to my house and say: Let me explain something to you, Tusiata. “Racism is like a scab on your knee”, and “if you pick it”, what will happen? “Leave it alone and it will heal”, otherwise I fear the “wound will get infected”. And what will happen to me then? Huh? What will happen to me then?"

"When I write a poem it turns into a “hate crime” right then and there. It springs up off the page, and marches out into the street like an army of ten thousand colonial soldiers armed with guns."

"My poem steals my neighbour’s land, and everybody’s land. My poem steals 94 percent of all the land in New Zealand. It steals millions upon millions of acres of land."

"My poem kidnaps children, puts them in state welfare institutions, abuses them and stops them speaking their own language."

"In the space of a few generations, my poem has traumatised the people who originally owned this land and their language almost disappears."

"My poem is no accident. My poem does all these things on purpose. My poem has a plan to take over everyone and everything."

"When I write a poem, my “moral compass is marginal” at best and the consequences of my poem “devastate” innocent people all over the country. Look at my poem, causing the “radicalisation of people” and ruining “social cohesion”."

"Oh no! Here I go again, with my pen and my exercise book, inciting “hate speech” and “dehumanising” people."

"Now, I want you to listen closely because I’m going to tell you something very important: Brown women are so privileged now, we can get away with anything. If I was a “white male I would be taken apart!”."

"That’s honestly how simple it is."

"It is not complex."

"No colonisation. No genocide. No intergenerational trauma. No two centuries of white privilege."

"There is truly nothing more to think about."

"Damn this poem! It is making my jaw grow long and shaggy, fangs grow from my mouth and my eyes turn red. Here I go, on all fours now, with a tail growing out from under my skirt like a wild dog. Here I go, writing a “racist rant about one of history’s greatest explorers”."

"I would love to see authentic stories coming from Africa to international platforms, and I want to be part of those stories"

"I fell in love with drama and never looked back!"