CC & THR Quotes and Themes

Question 1

THR - Racism Quote

Answer 1

“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

Question 2

THR - Acceptance Quote

Answer 2

“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.”

Question 3

THR - Culture Quote

Answer 3

‘I can do a cultural dance if you want me to.’ - Maxine

Question 4

THR - Otherness Quote

Answer 4

‘They were the same shape and size, but there was something not normal about them. They were brown hands.’

Question 5

THR - Intergenerational Disadvantage Quote

Answer 5

‘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.’

Question 6

CC - Racism Quote x3

Answer 6

‘you blackfellas are smart when you wanna be’ - Luke
‘you don’t go soft on a blackfella, they take advantage of you’ - Luke

Question 7

CC- Acceptance Quote

Answer 7

‘[the spear] it’s a dangerous weapon, im gonna have to take it’ - Luke
‘But you took my gun!’ - Charlie

Question 8

CC - Culture Quote x3

Answer 8

‘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

Question 9

CC - Otherness Quote

Answer 9

‘Do you mind if I call you Charlie? I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names.’ - Doctor
‘Now I’m a foreigner?’ - Charlie

Question 10

THR - Discrimination Quote

Answer 10

“I was brown. And most of my world wasn’t.”
“‘I don’t like her. She’s brown’.”

Question 11

CC - Discrimination Quote

Answer 11

“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

Question 12

CC - Intergenerational Disadvantage Quote

Answer 12

‘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

Question 13

THR - Belonging Quote

Answer 13

‘that Africa herself might not now recognise me’

Question 14

CC - Belonging Quote

Answer 14

‘They’ll take me to Darwin’ - Bobby
‘Then you’ll die in the wrong place… A long way from your country’ - Charlie

Question 15

CC - Friendship Quote

Answer 15

“You white bastard”/ “You black bastard.” - Charlie and Luke

Question 16

THR - Friendship Quote

Answer 16

‘The McGuires were good people. They were our best friends. But they hadn’t said anything.’

Question 17

THR - Identity Quote

Answer 17

“…my mother did everything she could to integrate us into our surroundings.”
“…periphery of our whitewashed lives, another black woman.”

Question 18

CC - Identity Quote

Answer 18

‘It’s my own supermarket’ [the bush] - Charlie
“So now I’m the foreigner, am I?” - Charlie

Question 19

THR - Resilience Quote

Answer 19

“My children are the descendants of those unbroken.” - Maxine

Question 20

CC - Resilience Quote

Answer 20

“I’m giving up drinking anyway”
“Okay, I’ll teach them. I’d like to do it”

Question 21

CC - Similarities and Differences Quote

Answer 21

‘White fellas lock me up for being Aboriginal… I want to live in the white fellas way now’ - Charlie

Question 22

THR - Fetishization Quote

Answer 22

I can do a cultural dance if you want me to.’ - Maxine

Question 23

CC - Fetishization Quote

Answer 23

‘heard you can track ‘em for us’ - Luke

Question 24

CC - Escapism Quote

Answer 24

“Live the old way… …going to my Mother Country.” - Charlie

Question 25

CC- Conformity Quote

Answer 25

“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.”

Question 26

CC - Hopelessness Quote

Answer 26

“I have no money left… or food. I’m hungry”
“I can’t eat with them… I can eat without them” - Dependant on society

Question 27

CC - Urban vs Rural Quote

Answer 27

“I don’t like this posting much… it’s isolated, its remote. I’m one for the big city” - Luke

Question 28

CC - Loss of Innocence Quote

Answer 28

“Fuck those thieving…white bastards.” - Charlie has realisation that White institutions dont care
“I work for them catching criminals, they don’t pay me.”

Question 29

CC - Impact of Colonisation Quote

Answer 29

“The food in prison is better than this.” - Indigenous communities given bad food
“They stole our land and put a police station on it.”

Question 30

CC - Isolation Quote

Answer 30

“Now I’m a foreigner?” - Charlie isolated by societal views
“Mother country is a long way away. Too far. I can’t see it.”

Question 31

CC - Damage of Discrimination Quote

Answer 31

“They should just shoot us, like in the old days.” - Faith
“White fellas locked me up for being aboriginal.” - Charlie

Question 32

CC - Health Quote

Answer 32

“I have no money left… or food. I’m hungry” - Charlie
“It’s all that… white man junk food we eat.” - Charlie

Question 33

CC - Institutionalised Racism Quote

Answer 33

‘heard you can track ‘em for us’ - Luke (incorrect stereotypes)

Question 34

THR - Conformity Quote

Answer 34

“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.”

Question 35

THR - Hopelessness Quote

Answer 35

“Somewhere along the line we give up counting.
“Somewhere along the line, we just give in.”
“Somewhere along the line, we stop reporting.”

Question 36

THR - Loss of Innocence Quote

Answer 36

“At five and a half, racism had already changed me.”
“This is how it alters us. This is how we change.”

Question 37

THR - Impact of Colonisation Quote

Answer 37

“…a nation founded on the genocide, degradation and dispossession of black Indigenous inhabitants.”

Question 38

THR - Isolation Quote

Answer 38

“I was intrinsically aware that the more invisible I was, the easier my life would become.”

Question 39

THR - Expectations vs Reality Quote

Answer 39

“By the mid-eighties, Australia was slowly changing”
“Now I wasn’t just brown and strange-looking, I was also dirty.”

Question 40

THR - Damage of Discrimination Quote

Answer 40

“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.”

Question 41

THR - Health Quote

Answer 41

“My hands would… absent-mindedly peel back layers of flesh and skin.”

Question 42

THR - Institutionalised Racism Quote

Answer 42

“‘It’s amazing, how you people carry your babies. It just seems to be, like, instinctive!”