Soy el cantor deAme¤  rica auto¤  ctono y salvaje; mi lira tiene un alma, mi canto un ideal. Mi verso no se mece colgado de un ramaje con un vaive¤  n pausado de hamaca tropical. I am the aboriginal and savage singer of America; my lyre has a soul, my song has an ideal. My poetry does not swing from the branches with the slow movement of a tropical hammock.

-Ch'in Chia   c.150
  Alma  Ame¤  rica,'Blaso¤   n' (translated as'Blazon',1935).

The Aboriginal writer is a Janus-type figure with one face turned to the past and the other to the future while existing ina postmodern, multicultural Australia inwhich he or she must fight for cultural space.

-Narogin, Mudrooroo formerly  Colin Jackson
  Writing from the Fringe, ch.1,'Writing from the Fringe'.