47 Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

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 don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way.

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.

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

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.