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Solidarity
Television (Full Length) – 1992
My conviction that white people had indeed created a discriminatory and unfair society in both the USA and in Aotearoa was reinforced, and to experience firsthand expressions of solidarity was most heartening. I was strengthened irrevocably.– Dean Hapeta (aka Te Kupu) on travelling to Detroit and New York in 1990, NZ Musician, June 2016
We heard about you, we've never seen no rap group from New Zealand. I'm saying tomorrow all I'm doing is learning New Zealand rap...– Musician and poet Gil Scott-Heron
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