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Witi Ihimaera
Television (Full Length) – 1997
No matter where I go, I know that I am Māori — That’s the first thing that I know, always. I was born a Māori, live a Māori and I will die a Māori and that’s the great unchangeable fact of my life.– Witi Ihimaera
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