Omar Musa Quotes

Omar Musa Quotes

Omar bin Musa is an award-winning author, poet and rapper from Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has released three solo hip hop records and three books of poetry. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs was published in 2014. Here Come the Dogs was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. Wikipedia

✵ 9. January 1984

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“We try to portray ourselves as a very egalitarian society, the land of the fair go…But I think that we are quite segregated. And class exists in Australia – it’s much more slippery and hard to get your hands on than in other places where it’s more structured and stratified. But it’s there.”

Omar Musa

On Australian society in “Omar Musa, Australia's star slam poet, brings 'in-betweener' perspective to US” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/17/omar-musa-australia-malaysia-poet-here-come-the-dogs in The Guardian (2016 Feb 17)

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