Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.”

“We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.”

“The years of imprisonment hardened me... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life... there is no longer anything I can fear.”

“I learned to deal with the police... to be tough... to survive.”

“The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.”

“No one under international copyright law has the right to depict me or my husband without our consent. I have been surprised by the many people, particularly Americans, who are either writing books or going to produce films about the Mandela family without even bothering to consult us.”

“When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.”

“The ANC has failed to address the problems of the black majority quickly enough.”

“I am not sorry. I will never be sorry. I would do everything I did again if I had to. Everything.”

“I never talk about my private life.”

“It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.”

“I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.”

“The solution of this country's problems lies in black hands.”

“We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream.”

“To me, David Astor was a freedom fighter. To me, he wasn't just a journalist; he was a freedom fighter.”

“As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.”

“Politicians are not lovers.”

“I don't say we should have performed miracles, but surely there ought to have been a difference between the apartheid regime and governance of the ANC after 17 years.”

“I have a good relationship with Mandela. But I am not Mandela's product. I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.”