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

"When I write a poem “sexual and racial violence” burst out of me like wolf-fur through the rents in my smooth brown s…"

"My daughter locks me in the bathroom and says through the door: Mum, stop that “racist violence dressed up as art”, b…"

"My daughter slumps down outside the bathroom door in tears and whispers: I’m tired of my “acceptable ethnicity”. We b…"

"When I am under a full moon, I start writing a poem about colonisation, which is exactly the same as “inciting murder…"

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

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

"Later, my white neighbour will come over to my house and say: Let me explain something to you, Tusiata. “Racism is li…"

"When I write a poem it turns into a “hate crime” right then and there. It springs up off the page, and marches out in…"

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