Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in. . . My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.
The women are the movers and shakers in the community. . . they initiate things. . . they keep things going.
I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.
What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal people are capable of doing these things and women are capable of doing these things and Aboriginal women are capable of doing these things.
Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.
They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me. . . I am woman and I am strong.
I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.