No Sugar Quotes Flashcards
No sugar culture quotes 8
‘Mugs of tea, Lacing them generously with sugar’- assimilation
“Don Bradman”
“Jack Johnston” “jack Dempsey”- American boxers
“Springtime in the Rockies”
‘Gives David a humbug’- western candy given to them
“Inji sticks” have no translation, showing the strength of their culture against the whites
Gran always uses “nyoongah” as it is language from her tribe, showing her stubbornness to adapt and change her culture to suit her white oppressors.
“I’m gunna show you my country, got a big river, swans, beautiful white swans.”- joe’s favourite bird is a non- native white intruder, in fact the state bird for WA is the black swan, they are growing to admire non native figures and symbols.
No sugar hope quotes 4
.”if I return back to Northam I am liable to be returned back to Moore river settlement”- plans on going back to Northam, will ultimately return back to Moore river.
“Woe woe woe… pity,pity,pity hungry walking hungry”- grans song depicts a loss of hope for the Joe and Mary, they are going to struggle. “That way walking, that way walking” and the hungry walking repetition implies that it is a cycle of suffering. They will forever be hungry and walking due to a lack of freedom.
‘All the blacks with the exception of the Millimurra family, gradually disperse…Jimmy is left alone’- when the going gets tough, the Aboriginal people run away and disband, reducing their ability to over through the white hegemony.
“There’s a happy land,Far far away, no sugar in our tea, bread and butter we never see, that’s why we are gradually fading away.”-presents a lack of hope as the rule over them has meant that they are fading away
No sugar power/abuse quotes 7
.”no sugar in our tea, bread and butter we never see”- stand up against the white populous as a group
“I’ve got to get to a bank auction”- JP doesn’t care about a fair trial
‘JP hurries out’
[abruptly] “I know he can wait”- Neville abuses his power to the Aboriginals but even to miss Dunn
“Native protector, couldn’t protect my dog from flees”- knows that Neville isn’t helping the aboriginals.
Neal threatens Sister Eileen for proposing a library by saying he would move her to a place “On the edge of the Gibson desert”- abuse of power and assertion of dominance by white man on females
“Gudeeah bin kill em… all go nother country”
“Don’t worry, I won’t touch her”- famous words as Neal beats a pregnant Mary
No sugar humour quotes 5
.”Mammy,Mammy, How I love you, how I love you”- Jimmy humour highlighting the child like behaviour of the whites
“Wow wow nit him on the leg… musta wanted a bit a’ holy meat”
“Too late to adopt the Tasmanian solution”
“Who kicked it out of bounds, sea breeze in, was it”- white people capable of being humorous with each other. Contrast with “Niggers department”
Monday, let me give you a piece of advice: sugar catches more flies than vinegar- irony as they have “no sugar in [their] tea
No sugar family quotes 6
“How long since you seen your kids?” “6 months, haven’t sent em any money”- juxtapose the white relations and the black relations through frank
‘Cissie coughs and her mother rubs her back. They all gather around with increasing concern’
“[instantly recovering] I am too”- gran uses her resourcefulness to get what she wants and needs
“Don’t need powder, used my own” doesn’t need Matrons Lysol soap and baby powder”
Koolbardi- magpie or black and white in English
“Yes, I’m going down to Boan’s to pick up a few presents for the Mrs and and the kids”- sergeant
No sugar identity quotes 6
.’Billy threatens joe nervously with the whip’
He hands him his whip’ -identity crisis for Billy,
‘He throws the stick of tobacco on the floor. Billy picks it up’.
Loyal to Neal like dog despite being abused verbally “blithering stone-age idiot” and “you bloody incompetent savage”. As well as being hurt by white people through the oombulgarri massacre
‘Sister Eileen remains, unsure which way to go.’
No sugar injustice and inequality quotes 3
.”sells us little shrivelled ones and and them wejala kids big fat ones”
“Better off than I am, bet he’s not eating bread n fat for breakfast”- Jimmy has better quality life in gaol than when he is ‘free’
“Wages, Earned a few a few bob and they give it to me I got out. Not like this place”- joe
No sugar dispossession quotes 3
.”A nice, white little town”- lost their home to the whites
‘He drags on the burnt remains of David’s bike’- loss of material goods, represents their inability to move forward as their mode of transport, the bike has been burnt.
Change in setting
No sugar spirituality quotes 5
.” She’d be real upset if if she saw the place now, Gran too. Specially gran”- tighter spiritual connection to the land than the others
Attempt to teach the aboriginal kids about the “three wise men” and “King Herod”
They are connected spiritually, ‘Bluey and Billy paint themselves with wilgi’ without talking to each other despite coming from different countries. Shows that they are inherently connected through the land. ‘Their bodies appearing and disappearing as the paint catches the firelight’
No sugar civilised quotes 13
.”provide the basic accoutrements of civilisation” link to “tak[ing] the liberty to order the materials” for “handkerchiefs” as there are “so many dirty little noses”- irony as nevilles actions to cut the soap rations prevents them from becoming civilised
“Has never seen such disrespect” threatens to cancel “Christmas”- uncivilised behaviour of Neville.
Contrast with the family nature of sharing “underground mutton” and the “gather[ing] around [cissie] with increasing concern”
“Where, wetjala cut down all the trees”
‘Briskly approaches his office’ ‘Jimmy ambles out’ contrasting the ways they are presented, hinting at the whites being more civilised
‘Interrupting’ Neal interrupts everyone
“Native’s entrance is around the back”- refuses to enter the same way as Aboriginal people
No sugar ignorance quotes 7
.”an offence to supply liquor to an Aboriginal native under the Aboriginal Act”- sergeant
“Natives best left to keep to themselves”- sergeant
“I got nothing against em, but I know exactly what they’re like” -sergeant
“[interrupting] His what?”- ignorant that Aboriginals can’t own homes
“Ask him for some gnummarri”- ignorant as they want to ‘protect’ the aboriginals, yet their introduction of tobacco and alcohol has made them addicted
“Alright, billy, but we don’t hit people to make them do god’s will”- irony because many Christians have whipped and been whipped to follow God in the past, whites doing the same thing to blacks. Link to Neville cancelling “Christmas”, he is a god figure for whites.
No sugar Setting quotes 8
“It’s a bloody depression”
“Cockies want em to work for nothin”-milky
“They not slaves, chergeant”
“Unemployment’s hit thirty percent according to the west”
“Engaged under a government blanket”
“I’ve got to get to a bank auction in wongamine”
“Gudeeah bin kill em. Finish, kill em, big mob”- can just kill a mob of Aboriginal people with no real consequence.
“If I return to Northam I am liable to be returned under warrant to Moore river settlement or any other government native settlement”- can be removed from places and restricted from entering places under the Aboriginal Acts.
