CC & THR Quotes and Themes Flashcards
THR - Racism Quote
“I was Coon. I was Jungle Bunny. I was Monkey Girl. I was Gorilla. I was Lubra Lips. I was Nigger. I was Blackie, or Golliwog. I was Tar Baby. … I was Sooty, Boong, Thick Lips.” - Maxine
THR - Acceptance Quote
“On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing.” - cant accept her own skin
“there was something wrong with being brown… not a very desirable thing at all.”
THR - Culture Quote
‘I can do a cultural dance if you want me to.’ - Maxine
THR - Otherness Quote
‘They were the same shape and size, but there was something not normal about them. They were brown hands.’
THR - Intergenerational Disadvantage Quote
‘Bordy, was nothing short of brilliant… Bordy had paper. This wasn’t just any old piece of paper Bordy held, but a PhD from an English university.’
CC - Racism Quote x3
‘you blackfellas are smart when you wanna be’ - Luke
‘you don’t go soft on a blackfella, they take advantage of you’ - Luke
CC- Acceptance Quote
‘[the spear] it’s a dangerous weapon, im gonna have to take it’ - Luke
‘But you took my gun!’ - Charlie
CC - Culture Quote x3
‘you need to teach the kids how to dance… properly.’ - Lulu
‘They don’t care anymore’ - Charlie
‘We need to teach them the traditional ways’ - Lulu
CC - Otherness Quote
‘Do you mind if I call you Charlie? I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names.’ - Doctor
‘Now I’m a foreigner?’ - Charlie
THR - Discrimination Quote
“I was brown. And most of my world wasn’t.”
“‘I don’t like her. She’s brown’.”
CC - Discrimination Quote
“You’ve got a job. You’ve got a house…on my land. Where’s my house? Where’s my job?”
‘White fellas lock me up for being Aboriginal… I want to live in the white fellas way now’ - Charlie
CC - Intergenerational Disadvantage Quote
‘i’m sick you know, my kidney’s no good’ - Bobby
‘it’s all that… white-man junk food we eat’ - Charlie
‘prison food is better than this’ - Charlie
‘i cant eat with them, i can’t eat without ‘em [fake teeth]… im starving’ - Charlie
THR - Belonging Quote
‘that Africa herself might not now recognise me’
CC - Belonging Quote
‘They’ll take me to Darwin’ - Bobby
‘Then you’ll die in the wrong place… A long way from your country’ - Charlie
CC - Friendship Quote
“You white bastard”/ “You black bastard.” - Charlie and Luke
THR - Friendship Quote
‘The McGuires were good people. They were our best friends. But they hadn’t said anything.’
THR - Identity Quote
“…my mother did everything she could to integrate us into our surroundings.”
“…periphery of our whitewashed lives, another black woman.”
CC - Identity Quote
‘It’s my own supermarket’ [the bush] - Charlie
“So now I’m the foreigner, am I?” - Charlie
THR - Resilience Quote
“My children are the descendants of those unbroken.” - Maxine
CC - Resilience Quote
“I’m giving up drinking anyway”
“Okay, I’ll teach them. I’d like to do it”
CC - Similarities and Differences Quote
‘White fellas lock me up for being Aboriginal… I want to live in the white fellas way now’ - Charlie
THR - Fetishization Quote
I can do a cultural dance if you want me to.’ - Maxine
CC - Fetishization Quote
‘heard you can track ‘em for us’ - Luke
CC - Escapism Quote
“Live the old way… …going to my Mother Country.” - Charlie
CC- Conformity Quote
“And that’s poison you’re drinking, it rots your brain” - Charlie conforming to White expectation
“Go back to your community, to live your own way.”
CC - Hopelessness Quote
“I have no money left… or food. I’m hungry”
“I can’t eat with them… I can eat without them” - Dependant on society
CC - Urban vs Rural Quote
“I don’t like this posting much… it’s isolated, its remote. I’m one for the big city” - Luke
CC - Loss of Innocence Quote
“Fuck those thieving…white bastards.” - Charlie has realisation that White institutions dont care
“I work for them catching criminals, they don’t pay me.”
CC - Impact of Colonisation Quote
“The food in prison is better than this.” - Indigenous communities given bad food
“They stole our land and put a police station on it.”
CC - Isolation Quote
“Now I’m a foreigner?” - Charlie isolated by societal views
“Mother country is a long way away. Too far. I can’t see it.”
CC - Damage of Discrimination Quote
“They should just shoot us, like in the old days.” - Faith
“White fellas locked me up for being aboriginal.” - Charlie
CC - Health Quote
“I have no money left… or food. I’m hungry” - Charlie
“It’s all that… white man junk food we eat.” - Charlie
CC - Institutionalised Racism Quote
‘heard you can track ‘em for us’ - Luke (incorrect stereotypes)
THR - Conformity Quote
“I was brown. And most of my world wasn’t.”
“It was happening. I was turning white. I ran my hand over my cheek in excitement.”
THR - Hopelessness Quote
“Somewhere along the line we give up counting.
“Somewhere along the line, we just give in.”
“Somewhere along the line, we stop reporting.”
THR - Loss of Innocence Quote
“At five and a half, racism had already changed me.”
“This is how it alters us. This is how we change.”
THR - Impact of Colonisation Quote
“…a nation founded on the genocide, degradation and dispossession of black Indigenous inhabitants.”
THR - Isolation Quote
“I was intrinsically aware that the more invisible I was, the easier my life would become.”
THR - Expectations vs Reality Quote
“By the mid-eighties, Australia was slowly changing”
“Now I wasn’t just brown and strange-looking, I was also dirty.”
THR - Damage of Discrimination Quote
“At night, when nobody was watching, I tried to claw my way out of my skin… It wasn’t even a conscious thing.”
“FOR MOST OF my school life, trauma manifested itself on my skin.”
THR - Health Quote
“My hands would… absent-mindedly peel back layers of flesh and skin.”
THR - Institutionalised Racism Quote
“‘It’s amazing, how you people carry your babies. It just seems to be, like, instinctive!”
