"Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within."

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Source : Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

Oodgeroo Noonuccal

“As governor, part of my job is to tell people things they don't like to hear.”
“To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.”
“You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.”
“When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.”
“Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..”
“There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.”

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“I'm from Winnipeg, you idiot!”
“The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber hadâ€¦ his photocopierâ€¦”

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