Kuia Quotes

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Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
“My life was tempered by the steam, stripped back and scalded to raw lines, so many skeins tangled, split, unravelled, and then plaited again into a pattern that made sense to me, as a weaver of words, not fibres, but trained and textured by a kuia who simply loved me, and knew me, and let me go.

And I have run back to her.”
Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Hine Toa: A story of bravery