Quotes from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

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.

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

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.

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

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.

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

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

The life of the President's First Lady would not have been for me. And I don't know how I would have been as a housewife.

In the normal course of things, journalists want their story, and as soon as they are through with it, they pack their cameras and go. That was never the impression that David Astor gave when you were interviewed by him. It was far deeper than that.

I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.

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

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

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

This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.

It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

You all must realize that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others - hundreds who languished in prison and died. Many unsung and unknown heroes of the struggle.

I identify... with the ideas that Malcolm X stood for.

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.

Politicians are not lovers.