We became public figures often speaking for family rights and land rights, and someone said to us, why do you always get up? We said we’ve got no choice; it was prophesied before we were born.  And you hear stories like that throughout the motu but people only keep them within their family, because people think it is conceited, it’s whakahihi, to go around telling everybody how clever you are, how good looking you are, or how madly intelligent you are, all that sort of rubbish. When in fact it’s your birthright that you were loaded up with, so you have to get out and do something with it.  - Keri Kaa.