Quotes from The Hate Race and Charlie’s Country

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“‘You’re so sensitive, Maxine,’ the playground duty teacher would say… ‘Just Ignore them”

sensitive, playground. teacher, ignore

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2

“I learned to stay quiet. I learned that nobody much cared.”

learned, quiet, nobody, cared

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3

“At the back of the book… was a page… [that] seemed like it had been stuck there as a footnote.”

back, book, page, seemed, stuck, footnote

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4

“I believed… that when they grew up, the kids who teased me… would stop being so ridiculous.”

believed, grew, teased, stop, ridiculous

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5

“I felt the principal’s relief at my silence - at not having to deal with the root cause of the problem”

principal’s, silence, deal, root, problem

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6

“You don’t go soft on a black fella, they take advantage of you” - Officer Luke

soft, black, advantage

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7

Nobody go near Lewis - He’s contagious now!”

nobody, lewis, contagious

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8

“clawing at [herself]”

clawing

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9

“You bring shame to us. She’s wrong skin for you. You’ve broken the law.,”

you, shame, wrong skin, broken

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10

“You come from far away and bring us alcohol, ganja, tobacco, all bad!”

come, far, alcohol, bad

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11

“You’ve got a job… and you got a home… on my land. Where’s my house? Where’s my job?”

you’ve job, home, land, house, job

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12

“We need to teach them the traditional ways”

need, teach, ways

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13

“I’m not a recreational shooter… I am a hunter”

not, shooter, hunter

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14

“Then you’ll die in the wrong place… a long way from your country”

die, place, long, country

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15

“Do you mind if I call you Charlie? I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names.”

mind, call, charlie, difficulty, foreign

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16

“Hard to talk to you when you don’t look like you.” - Black Pete to Charlie

hard, talk, don’t, like, you

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17

“I want to go home now… back to my country… where my place is.”

want, home, country, place

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18

“You know, you can’t just sit on the grass all day and call it “the old ways”. These times have changed.”

know, can’t, grass, old ways, times, changed

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19

“No, they haven’t. You’re still trying to change our culture to your bastard culture!”

haven’t, change, culture, bastard,

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20

“I felt a small rock hit me”

felt, rock, hit

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21

“My friend’s silence hurt me more than the names we’d been called”

friend’s, hurt, names, called

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22

“she was ugly. I hated her.”

ugly, hated

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23

It would need to be cultural. Like some sort of tribal dance or something?

need, cultural, tribal dance, something

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24

“I was sure my lie would eventually get me into… trouble… but… we’d get to hang out together away from everyone else”

lie, eventually, trouble, hang, together, away, else

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