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Aboriginal Quotes

We are all visitors to this time, this place. we are just passing through. Our purpose is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home Picture Quote #1

Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena Picture Quote #1

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ Picture Quote #1

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food Picture Quote #1

I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It’s where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience Picture Quote #1

There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What ‘The Sapphires’ does is open up the conversation that I’ve been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn’t about the color of your skin; it’s about your connection to your culture Picture Quote #1

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Gods of Wheat Street’ has been described as an Aboriginal ‘Neighbours’ or ‘Home and Away.’ But on set, we were calling it ‘Black to the Rafters.’ Picture Quote #1

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the past Picture Quote #1

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the pest Picture Quote #1

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country Picture Quote #1

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody Picture Quote #1

My mum’s from Broome, so I’m a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I’m not necessarily in the water Picture Quote #1

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$Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost Picture Quote #1$

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, ‘Please do it faster.’ Picture Quote #1

Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face Picture Quote #1

It’s a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again Picture Quote #1

It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it Picture Quote #1

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called ‘Lore;’ another director, Rachel Perkins - she’s an Aboriginal director, and I’ve worked with her three times now, and she gave me my first film role, actually, back in 1997 Picture Quote #1

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I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments Picture Quote #1

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist Picture Quote #1

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear Picture Quote #1

Some people think that there aren’t many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they’re not that good. It’s stupid. There’s such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they’re still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith Picture Quote #1

My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I’m tired of being the educator or nurse Picture Quote #1

Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant Picture Quote #1

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We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody Picture Quote #1

We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff Picture Quote #1

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell Picture Quote #1

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature Picture Quote #1

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief Picture Quote #1

We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin Picture Quote #1

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. we are just passing through. Our purpose is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home (Aboriginal Quotes) Genius... arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena (Aboriginal Quotes) Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ (Aboriginal Quotes) In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food. (Aboriginal Quotes) I lived for a couple of years when I was 9 years old on beautiful Aboriginal sacred land in a town of a thousand people in northwestern Australia. It’s where the Aborigines are still very connected to their culture, the Dreamtime culture. It was really quite a special experience. (Aboriginal Quotes) There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What ‘The Sapphires’ does is open up the conversation that I’ve been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn’t about the color of your skin; it’s about your connection to your culture. (Aboriginal Quotes) Gods of Wheat Street’ has been described as an Aboriginal ‘Neighbours’ or ‘Home and Away.’ But on set, we were calling it ‘Black to the Rafters.’ (Aboriginal Quotes) My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the past. (Aboriginal Quotes) My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the pest. (Aboriginal Quotes) We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. (Aboriginal Quotes) We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody. (Aboriginal Quotes) My mum’s from Broome, so I’m a saltwater person - Aboriginal people are either freshwater, saltwater or desert mob. So I always feel much more comfortable in close proximity to the beach, even if I’m not necessarily in the water. (Aboriginal Quotes) Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. (Aboriginal Quotes) The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, ‘Please do it faster.’ (Aboriginal Quotes) Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face. (Aboriginal Quotes) It’s a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again. (Aboriginal Quotes) It’s an old Aboriginal word meaning ‘Let’s get together and have fun’. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it. (Aboriginal Quotes) I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called ‘Lore;’ another director, Rachel Perkins - she’s an Aboriginal director, and I’ve worked with her three times now, and she gave me my first film role, actually, back in 1997. (Aboriginal Quotes) I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it be municipal, provincial, or even nation-to-nation relationships with aboriginal governments. (Aboriginal Quotes) Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist (Aboriginal Quotes) The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear. (Aboriginal Quotes) Some people think that there aren’t many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they’re not that good. It’s stupid. There’s such an incredible pool of talent out there, and they’re still coming out of drama schools. People just need to take a leap of faith (Aboriginal Quotes) My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I’m tired of being the educator or nurse (Aboriginal Quotes) Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant (Aboriginal Quotes) We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody (Aboriginal Quotes) We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff (Aboriginal Quotes) We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell (Aboriginal Quotes) Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature (Aboriginal Quotes) The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief (Aboriginal Quotes) We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin (Aboriginal Quotes)

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