Quotes from Anita Heiss

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred?

Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family.

I know who I am until somebody questions it, and then I have to start all over again. It's exhausting.

I don't know why it's taken me so long to realise, but now it's so obvious that underneath the invisible barriers and expectations we have constructed and placed on each other, we are all brothers and sisters; we are all just pink flesh and bone.

do not take freedom 25 for granted for she is a very fickle lover she will leave you in a heart beat 30 'cos for now she is married to colonisation a cruel and murderous spouse 35 if you were doin' time like a fine wine, brother you would make a beautiful bouquet

Collective Hierarchy Community Individual Cooperation Competition Culture Capitalism

If you think about the map of Europe with Italy and Germany and Spain and all the different people and cultures, well, Australia is like that. And the white people from England, they are like a lot of noisy, angry visitors on a holiday that never really ends,' Mary giggles to herself