All Quotes

"Honestly, it was tough to think straight"

"I was praying in my head, 'God, help us,' while closing my eyes. Then, I just heard the scream, 'Goal"

"When we qualified, I told everyone it was possible and we could win it. I'm thrilled we achieved it together as a team, and I look forward to the opportunities that lie ahead"

"Every team comes here to become champions. Nothing is easy, but we are ready to give everything to go all the way"

"Seeing the victims - children, mothers, fathers who've lost loved ones, and families torn apart - was heartbreaking"

"It's been hard to cope with"

"For me, the support I offer is simple: when I'm on the pitch I feel compelled to win, even if it's just to bring a small moment of happiness to our people"

"I found myself negotiating with what it meant to be Black and queer and South African, and viewing my body in those kinds of spaces"

"I feel as a Black queer woman in South Africa, I’m confronted with a lot of those issues that are rooted in capitalism and whiteness and patriarchy on a daily basis"

"We are more than these bodies that live in patriarchal societies that have been affected by our histories in our past."

"It’s important to have a dialogue about the things that are plaguing us, or disturbing our peace and our freedom"

"I’d like to believe that no matter what period I was born into, my writing or poetry would still have been my chosen way of contributing to liberation and contributing to conversations"

"I think that at the heart of activism is dialogue"

"I think that that’s the beauty and power of poetry – it cuts through the bullsh*t – it gets people to talk instantly about what it is that the poem’s trying to say, what it’s saying to them"

"One of the conundrums I was fiddling with was that my body and who I am is not a neutral space"

"he experience of being Black, queer and erased, from the archive, from politics, isn’t a singular story. It is not just my story, it is the story of multiple women."

"I live in a country where the arts are extremely underfunded"

"The narrative is that there is a head of the house, and there is a lot of silencing that comes with that"

"Being a writer/poet the work requires of you to defy and unlearn the thing that has taught you silence and the unspoken contract that the neighbors and extended family cannot know and get involved with traumas that are happening in your house and in your life, and that you are supposed to deal with it quietly and soldier on because you are a “strong black woman.”"

"I find living in a world where we don’t show our true selves, and where we don’t ever say we are hurting, quite suffocating"

"In my work I create a space, where as a black woman, I can name my traumas/hurts, and name the people who have inflicted those traumas in an unapologetic way"

"When violence is inflicted on a black body, the world doesn’t flinch because it has been so normalized"

"I am not okay with how religion has screwed over black people"

"I value being in a healthy space, I value being well, and I really value joy, and it wasn’t always like that"

"I think it’s in our nature to be naked as people."

"Poetry for me is a tool for connection, and I appreciate the ways it has connected me to people and opened me up to mechanisms of observing and being with the world"

"In this climate where censorship is gaining traction and being weaponised to discourage dissent, speech, or the act of speaking, and insisting on holding each other through dialogue and communication is both a protest and a promise to never be silent/silenced."

"In the realm of imagination, there are no restrictions, requirements, or guidelines that need to be followed"

"The stories initiate conversations about queerness in a homophobic society, Blackness in a racist society, womanhood in a misogynistic and violent society, and freedom of speech in an increasingly repressive society"

"There is this unspoken pressure that has seeped into our society to want to curate vulnerability or only show parts of it that are palatable in some ways"

"We are in a time where intentional listening and attention span is being eroded by our devices and the demands of the world that are constantly vying for our attention"

"Contemplation means to be with the temple, or to dwell within the sacred space of attention. Contemplation is much deeper than thinking. It implies a religious observation. It implies intention, slowness, interiority, reverence"

"Culture enables us to see each other - through our stories, shared across borders and cultures"

"It means a lot to me, I've been trying to get it, and upon getting it, I was really emotional," said Shangase"

"At the same time, I [had to remind myself] it's still not over, the game is still on, and I still need to wipe those tears and go back to carry on with the match."

"At the moment, batting is in front now, and judging from both – I can't judge, it's two different skills and I love them both," she acknowledged."

"I think the creation of a professional franchise women's league in South Africa needs to start happening in the next year or two. I think that is the only way we can start bridging the gap between our provincial set-up and the national team"

"We need to play more competitive franchise or club cricket throughout the year, and we can't just rely on four players that go to the WPL, the Hundred, or the Big Bash"

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"The rise and rise of Otsweletse Moupo 23 August 2006"

"Every day, every month and every season teams change, and it is going to be hard, but we have to fix ourselves instead of looking at other teams, and we have to work hard to achieve what we want. So far, we are doing well, we have frustrations here and there, like mistakes on the field and we have to fix those – it’s difficult but we are working hard,"

"We are more focused on what we need to be doing on the day when the Ghana game comes, and we are really working on that. We are focused on ourselves and not stressed about other teams, and we just need to make sure that we do (on the field) what we train"

"So many people look up to us because of where we come from."

"It is important that they know that one has to work really hard to get what you want. Honestly, success does not really fall from the sky. You need to wake up early."

"Gugulethu is like a community, like a school. You learn a lot from the people there. They are all parents to us. If you are able to take all the lessons from them then we can succeed. That is the weapon to achieve our goals."

"We leverage artificial intelligence to streamline course creation and make education more accessible and adaptable."

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