Quotes from The Hate Race and Charlie’s Country

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

sensitive, playground. teacher, ignore

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

learned, quiet, nobody, cared

“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

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

believed, grew, teased, stop, ridiculous

“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

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

soft, black, advantage

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

nobody, lewis, contagious

“clawing at \[herself\]”

clawing

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

you, shame, wrong skin, broken

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

come, far, alcohol, bad

“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

“We need to teach them the traditional ways”

need, teach, ways

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

not, shooter, hunter

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

die, place, long, country

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

mind, call, charlie, difficulty, foreign

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

hard, talk, don’t, like, you

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

want, home, country, place

“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

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

haven’t, change, culture, bastard,

“I felt a small rock hit me”

felt, rock, hit

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

friend’s, hurt, names, called

“she was ugly. I hated her.”

ugly, hated

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

need, cultural, tribal dance, something

“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