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
