“We did one tourist show every second week at a hotel restaurant, and the income went to the church. If our main tutor was away, I was the announcer with my snooty voice, which the tourists loved and remarked on.” — Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku in her Ockham-winning memoir ‘Hine Toa’.
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“I realised that the Law School would never let me thrive, that everything about it was hostile.” — Emeritus professor Ngāhuia Te Awekōtuku, in an extract from her new memoir ‘Hine Toa’.
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“I’ve always felt that, within the Māori world, there were never absolutes. I mean, yes, most people were heterosexual. But, in my community, there were also extraordinary, visionary, talented, astonishing human beings who defied convention.” — Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.
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