"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…"

"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…"

"My poem steals my neighbour’s land, and everybody’s land. My poem steals 94 percent of all the land in New Zealand. I…"

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