“Our people need to speak the honest truth. Talk about being abused. Talk about the struggle you’re going through. Talk about being homeless. Or talk about how you can’t afford to pay for things. Because not talking about the truth is what defeats us.” — Mea Motu.
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“This is the way it was for us. The two sides of our lives. The beauty and the violence; the richness and the poverty; the love and the hate. Everything, but nothing.” — Stan Walker, in his new book ‘Impossible — My Story’.
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“She’d say: ‘Ete, you’re a Laughing Sāmoan, and if you start telling your story of how you were violent and what you did to overcome that violence, that would be really awesome.’” — Eteuati Ete.
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“I did not want to go home. Because I knew that when I went home someone was going to be angry, someone was going to fight, and someone was going to get hurt.”
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“Their idea was to send me to school to beat other kids up — and that didn’t go down too well with the teachers.”
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