Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'

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When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'