“human reality is human creation, if we fail to create our own reality someone else will do it for us” 1
“…my western education has not caused me to shift from a belief and reliance in the supernatural…I am a Tongan woman of the commoner class, and although schooled in western ways, I continue to see myself as part of an organic unity, not as a chance result of natural selection at work in a world devoid of supernatural guidance…”2
1Ka’ili, ‘Anapesi. “From a Tongan Daughter; the World as I See It.” http://anapesi.blogspot.com/.
2Thaman, Konai Helu. “”Decolonizing Pacific Studies: Indigenous Perspectives, Knowledge, and Wisdom in Higher Education”.” Paper presented at the Center for Pacific Island Studies Conference Hawai’i 2003.