Aboriginal Quote by Shari Sebbens

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is…

— Olaf Ruhen

“... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound. Aboriginal, it…

— William Faulkner

In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard,…

— Toni Morrison

“This dirty, damp patch of grass—was this really the setting of those years of my childhood, so radiant and winged in my memory? This…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets,…

— Richard Wright

“The enigma that had bothered me in Sydney was beginning to resolve itself. If Australians allowed themselves to be represented worldwide as a nation…

— Ted Simon

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some…

— Paul Keating

“Before the blacktop came, the twisty old road beckoned only to those who loved the land and, out of that love, cherished it and…

— Helen Hoover

“The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched.…

— Bryce Courtenay