Mullumbimby Quotes

“Respect is a fulltime job, twenty-four seven. The way to behave in the world so that nobody’s pride gets trampled, so that anger doesn’t get a chance to ripen into disaster.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Mullumbimby

“That talga been sung there forever and always,’ Granny Nurrung went on. ‘Protection for the water, see. Then, Captain Cook time. Our old people seen the dugai come in, seen the way they were. Greedy. Breaking their own law, the ten commandments of the Lord God himself. Went too wild, shooting us mob. Chopping jali jali, killing the rivers. Stealing the jahjams away. Our old people saw the dugai couldn’t be stopped, and they knew what they had to do. Our mob mighta started wearing trousers, and working for the white man, yeah, but first they made sure they left their talga in a safe place where no dugai could ever take it away.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Mullumbimby

“Listen to country, girl, it’s been here a damn sight longer than you have.”
― Melissa Lucashenko, Mullumbimby